Key Arguments

• Certain terrain features offer concealment ideal for enemy ambuscades and espionage.
• Preemptive routing and search removes hidden threats near camp.

Source Quotes

17. If in the neighborhood of your camp there should be any hilly country, ponds surrounded by aquatic grass, hollow basins filled with reeds, or woods with thick undergrowth, they must be carefully routed out and searched; for these are places where men in ambush or insidious spies are likely to be lurking. 18.

Key Concepts

• they must be carefully routed out and searched; for these are places where men in ambush or insidious spies are likely to be lurking.

Context

ix. The Army on the March — security measures around camp