campaign of World War 2, just after the famed D-Day landings. The Normandy
region is known as 'hedgerow country', populated with an endless sprawl of
fields and pastures called bocages.
They're constructed in such a way on purpose: the treelines are planted as
windbreaks which block the wind from stripping the soil of the pastures. This is
exactly how much of Ukraine's inner territory of 'The Wild Fields' is situated.
This terrain presents a unique set of challenges for advancing forces. The most
obvious reason is each set of treelines and hedgerows is typically garrisoned
with defending troops who dig trenches and fortifications inside of them. They
can see out of the treelines, using drones and other ISR methods, to spot any
enemy crossing the fields, but the enemy has great difficulty seeing them in the
dense vegetation.
-- Cont'd at https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study
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