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What are 2 reasons ancient people didn’t wage war in the winter

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Hitler tried it and failed horribly, Napoleon tried before that and found equally terrible results, and the Swedes who fought in the Great Northern War would tell a similar story.

Supply lines running thin in the freezing cold and enveloping mud spells doom for anyone attacking into a Russian winter — or does it?

For some reason, history tends to overlook the many times Russia has lost in the cold, despite their home-turf advantage.

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