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Well first of all, Kaidu was 14 years old at the time and wouldn't have been part of that battle. Your textbook is thinking of Kadan ;)
To win, the best thing European forces could do is to maintain cohesion. The Mongols typically won battles by attacking, withdrawing in what appeared to be a rout and drawing knights away from the infantry only to slaughter the knights and then finish off the infantry with arrows. Cohesion is critical to force the Mongols to confront the European forces.
I recommend you to take point at battle of Legnica (my home city). Mongols used several tricks, including:
- Using Ruthenians shouting "flee! Flee! Flee!" to cause retreat and panic.
- Using gases and smoke to confuse Polish knights.
From what I know also, mongol lancers were used to charge heavier armed European knights from the flank as lighter horsemen "drew" them into the kill zone.
Do you mean me teaching people? I think I will be the student instead!
Thanks Morrdh <3
First draft of the first part of the Greater Dienstad International Military Academy is now up. It is not finished, but I did manage to get a fair bit up before sleep calls. Please do not post in the thread yet, so that I can continue to make any needed edits.
If any of you have suggestions for improvement of what is up so far, please let me know either here, or via TG. Thanks!
I like what I see. I'll definitely contribute.
I may contribute as well.
I had planned to make a bunch of Fuller-memes and spam NSMRC and NSMGV, but this might be a more productive use of my knowledge.
So do I to be frank. Lamoni, post my lecture about Assymetric warfare in there.
I think we should divide each lecture into IC and OOC, whereby we discuss ICly what it should look like, and OOC how to write it and develop the scenarios.
There's a paper by Kissinger I read a while ago that was about the nature of legitimacy and the reason why nations often don't fight war?
A lot of that has to do with balance of power theory. Kissinger doesn't believe that the pursuit of balance of power should be a nation's only goal, especially the development of military might, but rather the seeking of international legitimacy which he distinguishes from the form of legitimacy domestically, which is really better defined as justice. In other words, a state will not be militarily adventurous or be more willing to resolve disputes peacefully if they believe the international backlash by other major powers will be sufficient to significantly harm that state's international reputation. Rarely will states take on a 'revolutionary foreign policy' which upsets the international order.
This is an interesting thing because usually Kissinger is defined as the most hardcore of all Realism theorists in the field, and here he's taking on a very liberal approach. For the layman this might not mean much but Realists don't believe that international structures matter, because in their view the international system is anarchic and supranational organizations aren't really considered as relevant to state decision making.
His paper was on Vienna, which meant that it was mostly concerned with exactly that, balance of power theory. I was reading it for a class that contrasted with another guy who claimed that balance of power existed only when all nations were equally vulnerable and, since Russia and Britain would never be equally vulnerable, that legitimacy was largely defined by their interests on the continent.
However, both authors agreed that international relations depend on self-confidence of each nation. I think that makes sense, even to a layman such as myself, that every nation needs to believe that it is already legitimate. In the end, the way it was taught, it read more like a Metternich fan-fic to be honest.
By the way, does anyone play Diplomacy?
Wanderjar: I like the idea IC/OOC idea, but I also want to give the writer maximum flexibility in how the information is conveyed. Though we do have plenty of good writers here, so it should work out.
Stevid: I'd love to see you write about Military Police, regardless of if it is widely RPed or not. It would be interesting, and it might just spark some imaginations, as well.
New Aeyariss: Will do. If you have any other articles you want to contribute, just let me know.
Geara: I've played Diplomacy off and on before. I'm not experience enough to be too great at that game yet, though.
Sumer: I would love to see what you would be willing to contribute.
I've been thinking of dividing the thread up into the following segments:
* Ground Forces
* Aerospace
* Navy
* History and Theory
* Joint Ops (for anything that doesn't fit elsewhere)
But if anyone can think of a better way, i'd be much obliged.
I'll probably do Ground Forces and Navy stuff, as well as a little history talking about fighting Kraven Corporate and Pudite Forces during the Kraven Wars, something all the higher tier RPers now have heard of, but that there's not many vets left who've actually participated in. I was a noob during them but I was peripherally involved in the Kraven Wars. Though its often erroneously said (even on the IIWiki) that I was on Kraven's side.
Sounds good, Wandy.
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Love it 
New Aeyariss
Lamoni I'm would like to post in the military thread it will be a few though, I leave for almost a month tomorrow.
Hey to everyone I owe post had alot going on here plus writers block, So when I get back I will catchup on my posts owed.
Hey everyone, would like to share some news. I will be leaving effective June 23rd for three months to help assist in a special project in Argentina (going to be expanding dramatically in the Buenos Aires and Cordoba areas). During this time I don't expect to have much internet access, so my activity will be extremely limited. In the case my nation is to CTE, I want to let you all know that I do intend to return, so don't jump on my claims! My RP I also do intend to finish, I'm gonna try to get a post up before I leave but I do want to finish that as soon as I do return. If this weren't such a great region and you all weren't so fun to RP with, I wouldn't bother coming back tbh! I'll see you all in September, hopefully without contracting the Zika virus!
Lamoni and Wanderjar
Ehe, Argentina. We all know what you are planing on doing in there, Nazi ;).
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