Human+Environment+Interaction+1

=Marines / Location / Movement / Place / Region=

==Human Adaption== They wore lose natural clothing a lot. They also had warmer clothe for the highlands because it can get cold up in the highlands in Vietnam. Tropical monsoons occur from October to April in the north and south. Tropical monsoons occur from May to September in the center. It can get really hot in Vietnam so the lose clothing helps keep them cool. They often need some sort of rain gear for the monsoon seasons. Due to the terrain in Vietnam they used small arms against use so they could move fast, and not make as much noise, compared to bringing in power house weapons that were not made for the conditions we were fighting in. Iraq, and Afghanistan have to have buildings made of materials that keep heat in at night, because it does get cold in both places at night because of the desert. They also need buildings than can keep in the cold during the day, because well they live in the desert. In Iraq they do need clothing for snow, because it can start to snow there due to northern mountains. They snow then melts in springs and causes some flooding in the southern and central parts of Iraq.

Human Dependence
The Vietcong depend on the natural and modified forests around them to fight, because during the war the cities, and towns were controlled by the U.S and the villages and woodlands were controlled by the Vietcong. In Iraq, and Afghanistan they desperately need all the water they can get. They find it many sources, one is a oasis. Another is rivers, in Iraq's case the Tigris, and Euphrates rivers. The Taliban use the mountainous land they live in to hide, and ambush U.S troops, and the Vietcong used the forests to surprise American troops by popping out of fox holes and attacking then disappearing. Iraqi radicals do not use dependence as much, because a lot of there attacks are by sending in suicide bombers. The Vietcong or Vietminh depended on the environment the most, because they used naturals objects for there traps, used it for cover, to move without being detected, and to spot troop movements. They even used it for shooting at us.

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Human Modifications
The Vietcong had maybe three major modifications I believe. They are the fox holes, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and all the tunnels they had to travel all over the place. The Taliban and Iraqi radicals have bases, forts, bunkers built by us. The Vietcong made the least amount of modifications, the Taliban, and Radicals have concrete bunkers, forts, and bases. The Radicals use the roads by laying down IED's to get troops driving a long that road. It is easy to say the Taliban, and Radicals have use modifications the most, and and Vietcong did not need to modify the environment as much to to what they needed to do.

Conclusion
The environment played a bigger and smaller role in each nation. The Vietcong needed the environment the way it was the most, and the Radicals, and Taliban needed environmental modifications the most. The way they fought/ fight was dependent on the environment they are in. Also the Vietcong were geniuses in figuring how to use the environment to there advantage.