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Apparently one of first requests was an appeal for western style saddles as the afgan ones where painful to ride on. There is also case of an actual cavalry ch

• 082349872349872 6y ago
  That's odd, afghan saddles strike me as far more closely related to western[1] than to english. (I've heard buzkashi matches are usually won by men in their late 40s or early 50s. Given the physical nature of the sport, I believe that says something about spontaneous organisation afghan political culture.) Edit: oh, the saddle thing was a size issue. I'd've told them to embrace the suck, because better the saddle fit the mount[2] than the trooper :-) [1] lending credence to the persian->arabic->iberian->western hypothesis. [2] taking that to the extreme, one gets the proposed saddle design by a european general, which was suitable for leaving on the mounts in camp, even being rollable, but undoubtedly would've required much-better-than-conscript troopers. (the wrong tradeoff for modern times: compare Napoleon vs Mamluks.)