08-31-2015, 07:52 PM
Whoa!
I think the operational tempo of missions has changed mightily over two thousand years. Modern technology has "allowed" soldiers to engage with other forces for much longer periods of time - day, weeks, instead of hours, days. Until Alexander the Great, and later, the late Roman Republic, there was a season for war and then everyone went home to sow or reap. Sailors mostly beached every night. Just sayin'
Edited to add: The Peloponnesian Wars (before Alexander) did use year-round fighting as a war of attrition. It is commented upon by contemporaries because it was unusual.
I think the operational tempo of missions has changed mightily over two thousand years. Modern technology has "allowed" soldiers to engage with other forces for much longer periods of time - day, weeks, instead of hours, days. Until Alexander the Great, and later, the late Roman Republic, there was a season for war and then everyone went home to sow or reap. Sailors mostly beached every night. Just sayin'
Edited to add: The Peloponnesian Wars (before Alexander) did use year-round fighting as a war of attrition. It is commented upon by contemporaries because it was unusual.
Cheryl Boeckmann
