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 those two wings, and then in the middle was the gol, the center, this moving center that was his bodyguard and his unit in the middle.
then usually they'd have a vanguard and a rearguard.
Sometimes the vanguard would go out as much as two years in advance to clear the land, run the people away, scare them, make them go away so that the grass is left there for the army when it moves through.
And they never marched the way other armies do in a line of one following the other.
They would always go in long lines spread out in wings.
So that each horse is on its own path, you could say, but all parallel together.
So they had very precise ways of doing things.
And this, I think, was the secret with him.
And he used the best people, but he also...
He was willing to train them as much as possible.
He never punished them for what happened.
So Shiki Hutuk, for example, the Supreme Judge, he was command one time of a group in a battle in Afghanistan, and he lost the battle, which is very, very unusual for Mongols.
So Genghis Khan went out with him, said, okay, let's go to the battlefield together and look it over.
And you explain to me what you did
and then we will talk about it.
So he was very thoughtful in the way that he was training the people around him.
And they knew they weren't going to be punished.
It's not like these countries where the general comes back and gets executed because he lost.
No, Chinggis Khan knows every general is going to try 100%.
And if they retreat, fine.
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