Putting the T in METT-T (i.e., Terrain)

[Pete]

We're quickly losing the art of reading physical terrain after being cooped up on FOBs ...

In a World War II memoir I read that it happened when we stopped riding horses to where we want to go.

[Fuchs]

The worst possible on maps are too many altitude lines.
I saw a few Soviet military maps of South Ossetia in 2008, and I only saw lines.
They could as well have drawn impressionist art.

Here is such an example:
http://www.batsav.com/images/maps/mi...khevsureti.jpg