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Zin explains that mountainous terrain complicates military logistics. Unlike Iraq’s flat desert landscape, Venezuela’s terrain is tropical and rugged. Airpower, often considered a quick solution, is inefficient in this context because moving a pound of supplies by air consumes much more energy than over land or water.
The Berlin Airlift analogy—flying supplies into West Berlin during the Cold War—is limited here because the nearest usable airbase would be Cuba. Setting up such operations from outside Venezuela would be extremely difficult, especially when attempting to sustain a population of over five million people, indicating logistical impossibilities at scale.