Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast. In this episode,

we're back looking at the magazine with Volume 11, Issue 4 Wars of the Twelve Tribes,

Conflict in the Old Testament. Joining me are regulars, Yasporeauze, Lindy Powell, Mark McCaffrey and Mark

Desantis. Now, I've only just noticed that the only one of you lot who wrote for this issue is Yaspah.

So in your introduction, Yaspah, you point out that there's hot spots of conflict, you know, in the ancient world,

and your example is the Minden Gak, but I can't remember what the other ones were. You know, and presumably the...

One was Thermopyla. Yes, yes, that's right. One was Thermopylae, which is mentioned twice in the

issue, I think, because it's Michael Levinson's article mentions that it's... The Thromophani has kind of

moved because of the way the geography's moved.

But I wondered if there was such...

And in the magazine there's a mention of, is it the Golden Heights being fought over,

which of course is still fought over now?

But I wonder if...

The basic terrain feature you're referring to is a Palestinian land bridge, which is sort of, it's a slight...

It's...

If you take a route, if you're walking from, say, the Nile Delta, and you're going, you can only go, if you want to go east, you have to stay close to the coast because there's, you know, Sinai Desert, which is not very wonderful to walk through.

So you're keeping close to the coast.

And then if you want to go at some point, you want to go inland in a direction of, say, Syria, you have to cut through a mountain range.

And that mountain range is where Israel is now.

And the cut is where is the Palestinian land bridge.

You can go east and then you can go to the northeast.

You have to cross the Jordan River. And you can all do that in that sort of one fairly

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