Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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They were not too concentrated, they were almost always outnumbered by their adversaries. Look at this schematic: the date, going into the Kizyl-kum Empire, in fact that’s found in the Afghanistan area today. And we see here, take the scale models, for example.
They’re superimposed, you find out they’re coming on a front over 500 miles wide, 100,000 troops on a front 500 miles wide. They’re outnumbered by their adversaries so they’re spread out [unintelligible]. So, concentration didn’t seem to bother them too goddamn much. Initial column here, came in here, and they fought a lot of skirmishes on this front, and [unintelligible] roll them up, Persian guides, they would stretch their force out along the river, in the meantime Chingis Khan would command this column, finally they would all come together and conquered the whole Kizyl-kum Empire. Multiple thrusts. They did almost all their campaigning. So they weren’t as concentrated as their adversaries. And not only that, but they were outnumbered.