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America keeps losing wars because it attacks the capital first; the Mongol method was to take the countryside and let the city starve.
Drawn from what Jack Weatherford said
SubjectAmerica
What Jack Weatherford actually said
- Jack Weatherford Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The Mongol strategy is first you take the countryside. They're country people. They think in terms of countryside. You take the countryside, you occupy the countryside, and you cut off the city. It cannot live without the countryside. And that's how they did it every time.
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