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Ooh i thought it was because the mongols were experts of maneuver warfare.
by dragonelite 2y ago
Ooh i thought it was because the mongols were experts of maneuver warfare.
- scott_w 2y agoBeing good at tactics can win battles. Being good at strategy can win a war. Being good at economy allows you to win war after war.
- bitcurious 2y agoThe typical phrase is “infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.” It gets at the same idea as you. https://www.czdefence.com/article/infantry-wins-battles-logistics-wins-wars-what-about-the-engineers#:~:text=John%20J.,in%20the%20conflict%20in%20Ukraine https://www.czdefence.com/article/infantry-wins-battles-logi....
- scott_w 2y agoThat's the phrase I had in mind when I wrote it. I decided to extend it based on the experience of Pyrrhus :)
- Yeul 2y agoIt was religion that stopped the Mongols. One of their leaders converted to Islam and broke up their empire.
- scott_w 2y agoCompletely incorrect. The Mongol social structure did that without religion. Like most nomadic peoples, inheritance rules split the ownership amongst a leader’s sons, fairly equally. This is because they had people and herds, not land (hence, nomads), so it was the most sensible way of doing it. This, mixed with the fact that Russia and the Middle East are thousands of miles away from the Mongolian and Chinese capitals made it inevitable that a leader on one side of the empire would ignore their overlord on the other side. Thus, the empire would fracture quickly (and pretty much did as soon as the family ties to Genghis Khan were loose enough).
- bmacho 2y agoBeing good at religion allows you to be happy for an eternity.
- collingreen 2y agoBeing good at religion allows you to start war after war
- scott_w 2y agoNeither statement is true. You can’t fanatic your way out of a weak economic base for long and plenty of non-religious people live happy fulfilling lives.