Choke point
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choke-point-162-16715149
title:
Choke point
text:
In military strategy, a choke point, or sometimes bottleneck, is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or maritime passage through a critical waterway such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass through in order to reach its objective, sometimes on a substantially narrowed front and therefore greatly decreasing its combat effectiveness by making it harder to bring superior numbers to bear. A choke point can allow a numerically inferior defending force to
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encyclopedia
description:
Critical pathway through land or water, through which an armed force must pass
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_point
date created:
2004-11-19T03:25:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T02:58:37Z
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