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The butterfly effect is going to screw you over long before 15 years have passed, in many ways, but even directly via the weather: how many naval battles could have turned out differently if the weather changed?
Land battles, too. Before modern communications, the direction of the wind had a large effect on how fast and far orders could be heard.