HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Military History Of The Neo-Assyrian Empire, Guerrilla Warfare
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How did the small assyrian state develop into the first modern empire: standardized military, training and professionalization, armies on the field have a lot more cohesiveness through training. Corps of engineers -- mining, early chemistry, very specialized sorts of skills: military tactics, guerrilla warfare, assyrian army biesigning lachish (note: sappers) Immensely important technology that enemy armies can not compensate for: warfare and domesticated dogs -- proof that assyrians are changing and evolving warfare, assyrian prisoner of war -- if you surrender quickly, no worries. But they are not kind to cities that are destroyed in serious fight. Assyrians mostly execute prisoners of war -- easier way to get rid of dissent: or prisoners -- chained at the neck -- strip people of property and move them thousands of miles away in a foreign environment. Disorienting experience and limited version of dissent: forceful deportation -- fruits of this cruelty. Assyrians intermarry and assimilate with jews as one example of this.
