"La enfermedad en la Guerra de Independencia Americana" Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Apr 2020 10:02 p.m. PST |
"As the nature of warfare has evolved, armies have faced various challenges. One of the challenges that is always present, but is often underestimated, is the human aspect of war. More specifically, maintaining the soldier's health. The success of a boss ultimately rests on the ability of his soldiers to accomplish the mission. And this ability is weakened by disease. Overloading sick leave due to illness has a devastating effect on unit efficiency. From the beginning of history to the most recent past, armies have encountered enormous problems from heat, cold, and communicable diseases. An example of this can be seen in the epidemic that stopped the advance of the Huns in 425 B.C. As they set out to conquer Constantinople, the 300,000 Crusaders reduced to 20,000 in just over two years more by famine and disease than by the Saracens, Napoleon's army decimated in his withdrawal from Moscow in 1812 by extreme cold and epidemic typhus or the huge number of casualties suffered by the US Army in World War II due solely to arthropod-borne diseases…"
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