The Development of Cities

[JasonC]

Sure right and Germany didn't conquer Russia not because Vasilevsky was a chess master and the Russians mobilized for total war while the Germans didn't, but because it got cold, and everyone knows only the ubermenschen are bothered by cold.

It is an excuse factory. D-Day they invaded and they won. Napoleon lost in Russia because he had no logistics sense or system and a typhus epidemic, not because it got cold. Etc.

Weather effects the timing of operations and the mixes of tactics, it does not decide the rise and fall of empires and nations. Men do. Men with arms in their hands. And, again, there are scads of men in the modern world who will believe anything and I mean anything, rather than admit that men with arms in their hands, drive history.