Some strong country.
As a student of anthropology and geography I have always found the neologism ‘human terrain’ to be a strange one. Cultural and natural geography do interact but they have some fundamental differences. I might be overthinking it, but I have to wonder if using the terms terrain and human terrain isn’t fundamentally confusing. It might be meant as a metaphor, but the reality is that land relief and local populace are simply unalike things. Why use words that kinda sorta suggest otherwise?
Anyways, I found a copy of the official report and used a couple of the landmarks mentioned in it to locate the settlement on Google Earth from which the snapshot below is taken (the blue line is roughly the bed of the Wayskawdi Creek referenced in the report). I don’t have any background whatsoever in engineering, military or otherwise, but the terrain looks as difficult to defend as I can imagine.
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