These positions helped support the Russian left, which had no terrain advantages.
A succinct description of methods has been summarized in Table S2, with a brief account of their suitability to different terrains, advantages and disadvantages.
Rather than flying high for the whole trip, the geese follow the terrain, taking advantage of updrafts to regain altitude as needed.
Communist planners were equally convinced that control of this terrain offered advantages for defending North Korea or for continuing the war with offensives to the south and east.
According to Ground X-Vehicle Program Manager Major Amber Walker, the tech offers "instant improvements to tactical mobility and maneuverability on diverse terrains" — an advantage you can see on display in the GIF below.
The Taliban use classic guerrilla tactics — sniper fire, roadside bombs, ambushes — and their innate knowledge of the terrain to great advantage, they said.
Third, what is conveniently omitted is that the insurgents often live in the area, have friends and families in the communities, and that such a local support base is precisely what gives a guerrilla insurgency (along with knowledge of the local terrain) its classic advantage.
This is a State of the Union that will be studied, perhaps for years to come, as a bold attempt to anoint the vice president and the first lady as Mr. Clinton's political heirs and to shape the political terrain to their advantage.
Using terrain to his advantage, Longstreet validated his idea that the tactical defense was now vastly superior to the exposed offense.
The conflict caught global attention as the outnumbered and outgunned Finnish soldiers were able to use the difficult local terrain to their advantage, severely hampering the Soviet attacks and embarrassing their military.
