Terrain context
The Armenia–Azerbaijan border belt
A mountain frontier that was an internal administrative line for seventy years and became an international border without anyone marking it.
Conflict coverage · South Caucasus
Context, not targeting. Terrain records are strategic and historical in scope. The schema has no fields for coordinates, routes, crossing points or defensive positions, and a chokepoint can only be named where Vigil already publishes it as a map marker.
Terrain contextsWhat kind of ground Caucasus is fought over, as 3 records. Each explains why forces behave the way they do in a region — never how to move through it. A chokepoint can only be named where Vigil already publishes it as a map marker.
Terrain context
The Georgian administrative boundary lines
Lines through farmland and villages that were internal Soviet boundaries, are policed as frontiers, and are recognised as borders by almost nobody.
Terrain context
The Karabakh highlands
High, broken, forested ground reached through a handful of valleys — terrain that made a small force defensible for thirty years and then did not.
Evidence and grading
- Scope
- Terrain records are strategic and historical, at the level a published analyst writes. The schema has no fields for coordinates, routes, crossing points or defensive positions, so that class of content cannot be authored here.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.