Jack Weatherford
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first heard Aug 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025
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So...
you have this perfect weapon, but also you have to have perfect strategy and how to coordinate it and organize it and use it.
And this is where the genius that I cannot explain at all, but the genius of Genghis Khan came in.
Other people, I think, had been very good in earlier times, a number of Turkic leaders, and also, or even Attila the Hun, who, of course, was actually born in the West.
But
But they were charismatic leaders and very dramatic leaders.
It wasn't that they were so excellent in their strategy.
They were very good in warfare, and that's what carried them through.
Genghis Khan's army was extremely good in warfare, but small.
He never got probably above 100,000, at the most 110,000.
That is small.
When you're going against China that has millions just in the army,
not to count in the country, and you're going against Russia, and you're going against the Middle East and Persia and Afghanistan and these areas, your whole army has to be as finely tuned as each rider, each bow, and each horse.
That's the weapon, what the army becomes the super weapon of Chinggis Khan, how he organized it and how he used it and the strategies that he put together.
It would fit in a stadium today in America.
They had no infantry.
And he had no baggage train.
He had no backup commissary.
Early on, no engineer corps.
Later, one was added much later.
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