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Restoring Order: Conquering Iraq in the 13th and 21st Centuries. Could Genghis Khan teach the US?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jack Weatherford
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In his final televised speech to the Iraqi people in 2003, Saddam Hussein denounced the invading Americans as “the Mongols of this age,” a reference to the last time infidels had conquered his country, in 1258. But the comparison isn't very apt — unlike the Mongols, the Americans don't have the organizational genius of Genghis Khan.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e10
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