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=Marines / Location / Human Environment Interaction / Region / Movement=

==Physical Features== --- Iraq's physical features include plains, Marshes, flood areas, and mountains. The plains are usually broad and cover most of Iraq. The Marshes and flood areas run along Iranian border in south. The mountains in Iraq general are located around the borders with Iran and Turkey. --- The Physical characteristics of Afghanistan include plains, and a lot of mountains. The mountains in Afghanistan cover most of it's land are are very rugged at points. The plains of Afghanistan are generally located in the northern and southwestern parts of the country. ==== ---The Physical characteristics of Vietnam include Deltas, highlands, Forests, hills, and mountains. The hills, and mountains in Vietnam are generally located in far north and northwestern parts. The Delta's are usually low, or flat in located in the southern and northern parts. Vietnam is basically covered by forests.

Comparative Study
Iraq and Afghanistan have very similar features. They both have a desert like climate, a lot of mountains, and dusty plains. Afghanistan however is almost entirely mountains, and Iraq is almost entirely plains. Then there is Vietnam which has terrain that is nothing like either Iraq, or Afghanistan. Vietnam is mostly forests, but also have hills, flats, delta's, and highlands. Vietnam has more of a variety of different physical features due to its size. With so much different terrain, fighting there was really hard and sometimes unpredictable. Iraq, and Afghanistan have much less different types of terrain, but it is a little more hazardous compared what Vietnam has. ====

Human Characteristics
--- The human characteristics of Iraq's Radicals are interesting. They build rode side bomb's to counter our armored vehicles. They also made bomb's to strap on themselves in order to cause massive amount of destruction, death, and terror. They use old bunkers we built for them, and hide in other countries for safety. --- The Taliban in Afghanistan human characteristics are not as found. They use old bunkers a lot to hide, and for protection. They also build bombs for our troops, our vehicles, and themselves but not as much as the Iraqi Radicals. --- The Human Characteristics of Vietnam is interesting. They created the Ho Chi Minh Trail which runs throughout the entire region not just Vietnam. They also created traps intended for U.S troops to snag and hopefully would deeply, or kill.

Comparative Study
The human characteristics between these three nations are remarkably similar. All three have special weapons they a lone have derived that are intended on injuring, killing our troops. Depending on the terrain it changes what they actually do, like Iraqi radicals using IED's to knock out our vehicles. The Vietminh used snares, traps, rat holes, tunnels, and all sorts of other devices as well. The Vietcong also have the Ho Chi Minh Trail which could lead them anywhere they wanted. It went through the entire peninsula, and hundred of troops, weapons, and supplies went through it.