Can confirm it's a great map to play ALiVE Asymmetric on. Put BLUFOR in a TAOR south of the river, and OPFOR insurgency covering the whole North. The insurgents will trickle over the river so you need to patrol the area from time to time (or leave it up to the AI Commander) then run airborne patrols into the badlands. Alternatively you can base out of the island to the South West and pretend it's a sort of "island aircraft carrier".

I think we ran into a failed IED factory today. We were having a running gun battle in the streets of one of the towns when we heard a massive explosion down a side road. When we went to investigate, there were two civs standing in the wreckage of their house looking very perplexed.