I've just finished reading a very interesting book on the Mongols: The Mongol Art of War, which goes into the various aspects of how the Mongols managed to conquer so much of the world, from logistics to the organisation of their armies, to the tactics that they amalgamated from traditional steppe warfare, to their use of things they picked up from those they conquered like siege engines and even gunpowder.
One of the interesting things covered (briefly), though is the idea that it was the Mongols who inspired later thought on how to use tanks effectively to break up the sort of static warfare that had existed in WWI.
He sites the British scholar B.H. Liddell Hart as having first seen the connection between the Mongol's highly mobile armies and the possibilities for tanks.
A similar connection, according to the author, was seen by the Soviet Marshal Tukhachesvsky, who developed "deep battle" strategy, which ultimately somewhat ironically influenced the german development of the Blitzkrieg (Tukhachevsky was executed in Stalin's purges and thus his doctrine wasn't put into practice by the Soviets, at least until some time later).
The book is relatively concise and as such only has a few pages in this, so I was wondering if others on this board know much about this topic? To what extent did Mongol/Steppe warfare influence the new ideas that were put into play in WWII?
One of the interesting things covered (briefly), though is the idea that it was the Mongols who inspired later thought on how to use tanks effectively to break up the sort of static warfare that had existed in WWI.
He sites the British scholar B.H. Liddell Hart as having first seen the connection between the Mongol's highly mobile armies and the possibilities for tanks.
A similar connection, according to the author, was seen by the Soviet Marshal Tukhachesvsky, who developed "deep battle" strategy, which ultimately somewhat ironically influenced the german development of the Blitzkrieg (Tukhachevsky was executed in Stalin's purges and thus his doctrine wasn't put into practice by the Soviets, at least until some time later).
The book is relatively concise and as such only has a few pages in this, so I was wondering if others on this board know much about this topic? To what extent did Mongol/Steppe warfare influence the new ideas that were put into play in WWII?
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