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That last picture is extremely weird. (A 1:20 scale model of the border between India and China? It's too small to train on directly, and it's too large to see
by damncabbage 15y ago
That last picture is extremely weird.
(A 1:20 scale model of the border between India and China? It's too small to train on directly, and it's too large to see all at once for higher-level planning.)
- stephth 15y agoFor political/military strategists to take an morning stroll on? See if any bright ideas pop up? It's eerie.
- nieve 15y agoIt seems like it might be a a good low-tech way (and possibly even with modern battlefield GIS available) to thoroughly familiarize mid-level and lower officers with the terrain. It's hard to overestimate the value of a good, physical sense of the land in a places that remarkably rugged. It won't replace local info on the ground, but I'd certainly rather go into a place like that with commanding officers who aren't trying to reconstruct chunks of the Himalayas in their head on the fly. If you've got the spare manpower, the space, and you're planning ahead... why not?