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Episode 250 - Retaking Anatolia

The History of Byzantium

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No New Military Manuals Were Written to Develop Ideas About How to Fight the Nomads

Listener, x b asks why no new military manuals were written to develop ideas about how to fight the nomads. You can find that on patrion a lot of these military manuals did not offer much in the way of fresh insight. Often they were literary exercises and repeated ideas the author had read in previous editions. No one had ever written any advice about how to drive step archers off the plateau itself.

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