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The mounted archer Jiang calls the ultimate weapon for most of human history.
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Horse archer
The mounted archer Jiang calls the ultimate weapon for most of human history.
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"...These are the Mongols. The secret weapon, of course, is a horse archer. This is like the ultimate weapon for most of human history."
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"You could not defend against a horse archer. They were fast, they were strong, and these were the best warriors in the world. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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