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It requires significant mobility and logistics to achieve: every Mongol had horses and could live off the land, but armies between them and WWII relied on infan
by ranger207 7y ago
It requires significant mobility and logistics to achieve: every Mongol had horses and could live off the land, but armies between them and WWII relied on infantry and artillery who required long logistical trains. It wasn't until mechanization that the Mongol's strategies could be replicated.
- harlanlewis 7y agoThe wonderfully-titled (and wonderfully written) Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry covered some of the unique and hard to copy advantages specific to the Mongols. As you point out, logistics has as much to do with it as fighting tactics. They're covered here in part 4 of a longer series, just scroll down a bit. https://acoup.blog/2020/02/28/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-iv-desert-power/ https://acoup.blog/2020/02/28/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
- ranger207 7y agoYep, I was reading his "Gondor heavy infantry kit review" last night, and almost quoted it in my last comment as to why the Mongols could produce such an effective fighting force and subsequent societies couldn't: "every army is a battlefield instantiation of the society that created it."