| Автор: McAdie Alexander
Название: Making the Weather
ISBN: 108084905X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781080849055
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 10170.00 T
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Описание: From the Foreword: The wind rules the waves. It was a strong east wind that blew back the waters from the shallow places in the Red Sea; so that the children of Israel, light shod-probably barefooted and not bothered with impedimenta-could go nimbly over, while the chariots of the heavily-armed Egyptians stuck in the mud, and making slow progress, were caught when the wind lulled and the waters returned. Horses and riders were engulfed and drowned.The hosts of Pharaoh lacked a leader with foresight; one who, whatever his military education may have been, wasnot above asking advice about the weather.To be sure, the Israelites did not make the weather; but they took ad vantage of an infrequent but not unknown weather condition-and next to an actual ability to make weather, the wisest thing one can do is to make the best possible use of the existing state of the weather. In the following essays it will be pointed out that battles and campaigns planned without regard to the prevailing or probable weather, all too frequently result in disaster.No commander, however great his skill, nor however large his army, can afford to neglect the weather. The Master of Europe learned this lesson to his sorrow. Entering Russia in June with 450,000 men, Napoleon was forced by December to retreat, leaving, in his mad rush for safety, a handful of men, a miserable remnant of the once Grand Army, under Marshal Ney, to make their way as best they could homewar
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