The Mongols fought for victory rather than honour, which is why retreat cost them nothing and became their deadliest tactic.

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• The Mongols manufactured almost nothing themselves, so raiding was not aggression but their way of getting the trade goods of China. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025
• The Japanese defeated the Mongol invasions; the typhoon only sank the ships afterwards, and it deserves far less credit than it gets. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025
• America keeps losing wars because it attacks the capital first; the Mongol method was to take the countryside and let the city starve. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025
• Genghis Khan's kinsmen deserted him and the common herders he promoted never did — that asymmetry is the first explanation of the Mongol army. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025
• The Mongols destroyed irrigation systems as deliberate policy to return farmland to pasture, not out of the stupidity historians attribute to them. JWJack Weatherford31 Jul 2025

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