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Fear created by convincing an enemy that endless Romans will individually attack him.
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psychological warfare
Fear created by convincing an enemy that endless Romans will individually attack him.
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Glossary
Terror practices used against conquered people and Mongol soldiers themselves to prevent rebellion, flight, and resistance.
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Mucius’s failed assassination succeeds psychologically because his willingness to burn his hand makes Rome appear inexhaustibly fanatical.
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Modern warfare is mostly hybrid warfare: informational, media, cyber, psychological, covert, economic, and sabotage operations may precede or substitute for visible kinetic war.
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The conquest toolkit for poorer or fewer outsiders is escalation dominance, terror, and an aura of inevitability or invincibility, which lets them win psychologically before they win materially.
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Psychological warfare compensated for low population and weak governance capacity by making enemies and subjects afraid to fight or rebel.
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"I am one of hundreds of young Roman men who have sworn to come and kill you. One of us will succeed. I fail..."
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"hundred of us, the foremost amongst the Roman youth, have sworn to attack you in this way. The lot fell to me first. The..."
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"So you see what happened, okay? So Brutus is traumatized by the execution of his two sons. There is now a void in his..."
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"And so the Senate is like, sure. So Musius swims across the Tiber and he sneaks into the enemy camp. And he sees it..."
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"...United States and Iran has abated. The answer is because modern warfare is hybrid warfare. 9 % of warfare you will not see. So..."
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"So how is it possible for a different people, who are much fewer and much poorer, to come and conquer an entire empire? We..."
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"And what he did was, he perfected siege warfare to break down the walls. And before, it was thought impossible that you could break..."
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"...second idea is the idea of terror, or what we call psychological warfare. If you are badly outnumbered in warfare, then you have to..."
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"...everyone in the village. All right? So that's the idea of psychological warfare. But the Mongols do this to themselves as well. Okay? So..."
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"...fellow soldier does not run away. Okay? So the Mongols had psychological warfare not just for other people but also for themselves. And that's..."
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"It's psychological warfare. They've been doing this for decades. So think of the color revolutions in the Middle East, right? So they have this..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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