Jack Weatherford
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025
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But no, all cavalry.
I think the first point is the extreme loyalty of the people whom Chinggis Khan chose.
His kinsmen, as we said, had deserted him.
His anda was a questionable relationship, but all the others that he found were just common people, herders or hunters, very common, and they were loyal to him and never, ever revolted against him, never betrayed him.
So he had extreme loyalty.
And then, as you mentioned, he organized his decimal system, so the smallest unit of the army was the aft, the squad of 10 men.
They were put together, and then the head of that squad, he had total control over it.
But the men knew that they were going to protect each other, and they had to come back with every member or everybody.
You don't leave anybody behind.
So this was extremely important.
So if you submit to the orders of the man in charge, you know that he's risking his own life for you also.
And you know that your brother on the left and on the right is risking his life for you.
The army was...
They were organized with five horses, each man.
They had their bow, and they had a lot of arrows, as many as they could have.
But they also retrieved arrows at the end of their battle, and they also would retrieve the enemy arrows.
This was a great advantage, by the way, when they hit Russia, because the Russians could not use Mongolian arrows.
They could knock them in their bow, but the Mongols could use Russian arrows.
But
So all these little things, but it's not even just the arrow.
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