The map is pointing to the middle colonies, but the middle colonies consisted of PA, NJ, Delaware etc, but the arrow is specifically on New Jersey so I would assume New Jersey.
He believed that Germany was trying to develop one
Yes, it is true that the Soviet Union found itself losing the Afghanistan War to the ill-equipped rebel forces, since these forces had a much better idea of the terrain and how to fight in mountains, which the Soviets did not.
North was the region the United States were most major cities located by the 1850's.
