Sentence examples for key terrain from inspiring English sources
Their generals have designated scores of rural areas "key terrain districts".
When Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former NATO commander, overhauled the Afghan strategy two years ago, his staff designated 80 "key terrain districts" to concentrate on.
They capture the latest change in how the Pentagon's counterinsurgency campaign feels on the ground — in a new list of villages designated "key terrain," the old search for Afghan needles in Afghan haystacks grinds on.
The meeting had allowed him to check off a couple of important boxes on the score sheet of counter-insurgency doctrine: a "key leader engagement" that offered an opportunity to secure greater control of a "key terrain area".
Last year, American military leaders adopted a strategy of concentrating operations in what they identified as 80 "key terrain districts," mostly in the south and east of the country, less than a fourth of Afghanistan's districts.
Based on the experimental data, several key terrain parameters are identified.
It may mean airdrops or vertical envelopment to hold key points of terrain".
More recently, the Spanish and British governments have been in a 300-year-long pissing match about who owns this key piece of terrain.
The key piece of terrain in this part of the Baltic is Gotland Island, which sits smack dab in the middle of the sea, halfway between Sweden and the Baltic States.
For $37, you can get a wireless (wireless!!!) numeric keypad, effectively allowing you to ten-key on uneven terrain, underground, or from over thirty feet away from your computer — like while skydiving, for instance, except your computer is skydiving near you but far enough away that hooking up a USB-connected number pad would be way too dangerous.
It starts full of bendy Detroit house chords and Balearic sunshine, before taking a hard turn into eerie, minor-key "Midnight Express" soundtrack terrain (a film whose jail setting is, we suspect, where the moniker might have come from).
