CLOUDS OF WAR

It’s easy to forget just how sudden, unexpected, and destructive the weather can be. In antiquity, with extremely limited options for predicting, tracking, or mitigating the effects of weather, it’s influence on warfare was immense and sometimes lethal.

Robert C. L. Holmes

Our comfortable modern lives have largely rendered inclement weather little more than an inconvenience. The resources dedicated to predicting and tracking weather patterns around the world and mitigating their effects are enormous. These resources are readily available to the general public with little effort and limited cost. Satellites, weather balloons, radar, and hole host of other instruments gather data on temperature, air pressure, wind speed, humidity, and more with ve ease and at comparatively low cost. All of this data is fed directly to meteorologists to interpret and pass on to the rest of us at regular intervals. These efforts have radi-hanged our relationship with the weather. Despite all of these resources, the weather still has the capacity to surprise us, and sometimes with deadly consequences. Thankfully, such surprises are…

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Ancient Warfare (Digital) - 1 Issue, AW XVIII.1

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