Historical patterns
Chingis Khan and the Mongols
•Message
•By exploiting superior leadership, intelligence,
communications, and mobility as well as by playing upon
adversary’s fears and doubts via propaganda and terror,
Mongols operated inside adversary observation-orientation-decision-action
loops.
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•Result
•Outnumbered Mongols created impressions of terrifying
strength—by seeming to
come out of nowhere yet be everywhere.
•hence,
•Subversive
propaganda, clever stratagems, fast breaking maneuvers, and
calculated terror not only created vulnerabilities and weaknesses but also
played upon moral factors that drain-away resolve, produce panic, and bring
about collapse.
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