Message from @Uksio
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Warfare in Japan was fairly unique, since the only real times they had land invasions to deal with it was kinda mostly just other Japanese.
I mean, when it comes down to the basics,
A shield could really just be any object not made of your flesh used for ensuring you don't get it.
Where are his organs?
where are yours?
Whereas europe and asia were an absolute clusterfuck free-for-all eternally, spreading ideas, tactics, and strategies around from disparate places and cultures.
Japan managed to avoid being conquered mostly by sheer coincidence via storms; Their attempts to conquer other places largely utterly unsuccessful.
Kublai was furious.
Then the madlad tried to invade Indonesia.
Asians just can't seem to empire unless they're Mongolian.
Morning Frens <:comfort:592107824826417204>
Somehow, the culture stemming from the shittiest place to live in the entire region wound up being the big one.
chinese were very insular
and unsuccessful in conquering non chinese
Mongols were the pure conquest people
Mongols were the Zerg
Yup
China really just didn't have a reason to go conquering.
Some of their efforts were alright. They subjugated the Tarim Basin.
And they did manage to bring the Xiongnu to heel after a while.
they got their asses beat bymost of their neighbors
But, the Chinese Empires basically were always confined to China as a region.
when attempting to conquer them
such as the vietnamese
The Gokturks fucking thrashed them.
Even the Arabs got some kickings in.
They just about got their asses kicked in by a fucking greeks one time, too.
which is interesting how they were constantly at war with their neighbors
In one of the most forgotten battles in history at Talas which ended up changing the world.
but managed to have one of the most outdated of all armies on earth
Impressive manpower though.
When your empire is so shit that peoples from halfway around the world come just to kick your ass.
The culture that produced The Art of War seems to have never actually read that shit.