https://www.veteransnewsreport.com/2018/04/07/wolf-country-gazette-aint-it-great/ Media for U.S. Military Veterans Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.veteransnewsreport.com/2018/04/07/wolf-country-gazette-aint-it-great/comment-page-1/#comment-261549 Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:54:41 +0000 https://www.veteransnewsreport.com/?p=1017717#comment-261549 I’ve wandered the battlefield at Kalkrise, and can say that I would want no part of fighting in that terrain in rainy season. Those of us who’ve wandered around Europe in helmets, harness and BDUs or ACUs in that kind of weather in that type of terrain would have been extremely unhappy with the fools who got us into it during a REFORGER exercise or something of that ilk. All the things that made the Roman Army such a marvelous force on the battle field were largely negated. The legions needed open terrain to be flexible and to use it’s auxillaries — cavalry, scouts, artillery, archers, slingers and so on. The Army depended on visibility and on mobility to maintain command and control, two things utterly missing on the narrow footpaths with steep commanding terrain occupied by the enemy with expert and intimate knowledge of the battlefield.

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