Working on a post and paper on drones and targeted killing, I started thinking about how terrain and the plain of combat has been redefined from the old days of lines on maps to today’s “global” war on terror-whatever it has been rebranded.  Generally my responsibility to brief terrain consists of actual in your face terrain-where me and my fellow Infantrymen will fight.  The best cinematic terrain brief I have seen is BG Buford at the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg: http://youtu.be/LzZOp-nPho8  This is wargaming and terrain analysis at its simplest.

As we engage in the global war, how do I explain terrain and the enemy’s effect on it?  Just a random thought.