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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanguinemetaldawn" data-source="post: 2378296" data-attributes="member: 23390">Hmm.I really have to completely disagree with this.  The simple advent of the gunpowder empires would render the tactics of the Mongols obsolete.  Especially the ability of the Seljuk Turk armies to move while firing  (one rank fires, the rank behind reloads, the rank behind moves forward to take firing position, etc.)Then of course there is 19th Century Prusso-German military, which the United States military was modelled on.I am sure Mongolian warfare is taught in war colleges today, but there is something to be learned from every battle throughout history, and recounts of Mongol battles don't strike me as particularly noteworthy.I'd also be interested in what this "whole corps of nigh on revolutionary thinkers" actually thought of.  To my knowledge, the Mongols contributed basically nothing.  They passed over whole cultures and left little in their wake except animosity and resentment.This was definitely their other great advantage, aside from the nomadic culture.  The pattern of tolerant absorbtion of elements of other cultures (such as the conversion of western members to Islam) came about through the tribute paid by China over the centuries preceding the rise of Mongols to power.</blockquote>