Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Why were the Mongols so effective?" video.

The part about continually waging war on external enemies to prevent your own army from disuniting. Isn't that the lesson that George Orwell tried to teach in 1984? One part of the book describes how the Big Brother state was possibly in collusion with the enemy states in the effort of perpetuating an eternal war which served the purpose of keeping all of the populations "united" (in a very brutal and oppressive way) against their "enemies". It was also the mechanism behind Ozymandias plan in Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons graphic novel Watchmen. He staged a completely bogus alien invasion of Earth to prevent World War 3 from erupting between Nato and the USSR by leading both sides to believe that they were both faced with a common, extra-terrestial enemy. Looking back at human history in the past, the strongest uniting factor between different people's and countries seems to be the belief in having a common external enemy.
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@uwu_senpai : That's not a realistic representation of the U.S and also an intellectually dishonest position.
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I don't think an army of archers on horseback would have many problems with sieges to be honest. Cavalry is basically a quick reaction force. If you surround an enemy castle with cavalry forces then you can easily starve the occupants of the castle out entirely since you will easily be able to intercept any attempts of delivering food and supplies to the besieged castle occupants. The foodstores of a castle, fortified town or whatever always have their upper limit. And once the enemy on the inside surrenders or die to starvation, you will have captured a defensible structure intact without the need to damage it's protective walls and battlements.
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Age of Empires (the first game in the series) will quickly teach you why the mongol army was so successful. If you build a large enough force of horse archers and manage their movement properly, nothing in the game can really stand against them.
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@uwu_senpai : Never talked about a cavalry charge but about horsearchers. They don't charge formations, they ride around them and wither them away with arrows. You clearly didn't read my post correctly.
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Mid ary : The mongols obviously weren't just raiding. You don't build empires by raiding and returning home. And like the previous speaker said: the mongols carried their economy and infrastructure with them, so logistics did not pose the same problems for them as they did for more geofixed states. As a siege army they didn't need "relief" from outside supply trains and stuff like that, while the besieged cities and castles did. Making it easy to starve them out.
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