Critical pathway through land or water, through which an armed force must pass
For the US Department of Justice initiative, see Operation Choke Point. For the TV episode, see Chokepoint (The Walking Dead).
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In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint), 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 use the terrain as a force multiplier to thwart or ambush a much larger opponent, as the attacker cannot advance any further without first securing passage through the choke point.
In military strategy, a chokepoint (or chokepoint), or sometimes bottleneck, is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or...
Operation ChokePoint was an initiative of the United States Department of Justice beginning in 2013 which investigated banks in the United States and...
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played an important military strategic role as a naval short-cut and chokepoint. Navies with coastlines and bases on both the Mediterranean Sea and the...
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RSSI of each access point over entire location. Typical parameters useful to geolocate the Wi-Fi hotspot or wireless access point include the SSID and...
between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent and a strategic military chokepoint for various states that controlled it. The Khyber Pass is considered...
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easternmost stronghold along the Ming Great Wall that commands the narrowest chokepoint in the strategic Liaoxi Corridor, a crucial coastal landway between the...
by BirdLife International, because it is a migratory bottleneck, or chokepoint, for an estimated 250,000 raptors that cross the Strait annually, and...
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to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam...
is, the data is collected after an item has passed a point for example, a bar code or chokepoint or gate. Others are 'real-time' or 'near real-time' like...
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innocent passage through such straits. List of straits Strait passage Chokepoint "Marine Briefing" (December 2006) Scottish Renewables Forum. Glasgow...
center five years later. He was still working in this field in 2016. ChokePoint, the play written by Colm Byrne and produced in 2007, is based on Blair's...
neck. They would thus defend the entrance to the city or castle at the "chokepoint". In the 15th century, with the improvement in siege tactics and artillery...
is achieved over time. FBA provides a less simplistic analysis than ChokePoint Analysis while requiring far less information on reaction rates and a...