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Riga 62:
Also, at this time there were very few roads and bridges in the area capable of supporting large amounts of traffic. The
local railways were the only reliable means of large-scale transport, but even they proved problematic due to the variety of rail gauges (German, Austrian, and Russian) placed by occupying powers during different times in Polish history. There were no widespread telegraph or telephone networks in place, so field communication mostly relied on wireless radio or dispatch runners. Overall, then, it was terrain that was ideally suited to the defense, and even more so when the defender was intimately familiar with the hidden paths and smaller trafficable avenues inherent in this type of temperate zone.(Kimbal p. 9-10)
Key terrain included the Pripet Marshes and two mobility corridors. The first was the White Ruthenian Gate, a three hundred mile northern passage that connected Minsk to Warsaw. The second corridor was the Volhynian Gate in the South, a two hundred mile approach following the Dniester and Pripet rivers, cutting across Belorussia and the Ukraine. Rail and road to and from Kiev provided logistical support to the entire southern region.(Rozumski 25)
A ovest, le Paludi del Pripyat si aprono in una pianura dove i due settori convergono in prossimità di Brėst: quest'area non solo canalizza gli spostamenti lungo la direttrice est-ovest, ma limita la libertà di movimento lungo l'asse nord-sud. Le strade erano incapaci di sostenere le linee di comunicazione di un esercito: a est del Bug vi erano solo due strade asfaltate, in pratica a una sola corsia di marcia; le vie secondarie variavano, a seconda delle condizioni meteorologiche, fra l'essere una palude di fango in primavera e una distesa polverosa piena di buche in estate; i ponti erano scarsi o danneggiati come risultato delle operazioni militari della prima guerra mondiale.<ref>{{cita|Worrell|pp. 10-13}}.</ref>
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