Chance in History: The Russian Winter of 1941-1942
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Stolfi, Russel H.S.
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1980
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Wiley
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Few factors exceed climate and weather in importance f the opening of wartime military operations and their co final political decision. On most inhabited parts of the g and the natural features and human civilizations which t the essential character of military operations, are funda planning, and are universally respected and anticipated ubiquity and importance, the seasons rarely intrude to d success and failure. Climate, the dependent factor of ve additional factor of terrain, for example, dictated a ligh Southeast Asia in the 1960s, but the seasons, even the w to grant a decisive advantage to one side or the oth functions and vital processes of human beings allow th swiftly to the hottest weather in the vast areas close to acclimatization cannot protect the human actors in war f much below the freezing point of water, and as one mov severe season begins to intrude on the conduct of milita Soviet Russia, for example, the area west of Moscow similar to that for southern Alaska and the winter season c ing effects on the conduct of offensive military operations.
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The article of record as published may be found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/24419033
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Journal of Modern History, Volume 54, (March 1982), pp. 027-046
Stolfi, Russel H.S "Chance in History: The Russian Winter of 1941–1942." History 65.214 (1980): 214-228.
Stolfi, Russel H.S "Chance in History: The Russian Winter of 1941–1942." History 65.214 (1980): 214-228.
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