Zaradi Toruney: Best Military Leaders Debate

*reads acceptance statement**gets a headache*Anyways: My pick for one of the best military leaders: Genghis Khan (I borrowed this from one of my other debates similar to this, but I trimmed it to be a tad shorter)http://www.marketroadfilms.com...Genghis Khan is known as the first of the great Mongol warlords who kickstarted the creation of the largest continuous empire the world has ever seen. http://upload.wikimedia.org...Mongolia at the time of Genghis Khan had very little manpower to muster to go out conquering, yet Genghis Khan managed to take down CHINA despite this handicap. (China existed as three different countries at this point, Jin in the north, Xia in the west, Sung in the south.) Jin China was several times over more populated than Mongolia, and the size of the armies reflected this. Genghis Khan invaded with around 100,000 men, yet he still managed to: "smashed the Jin armies, each numbering in the hundreds of thousands"http://en.wikipedia.org...Genghis Khan defeated SEVERAL Jin armies, each of which was larger than his own, and not only did he win, he smashed them, going on to conquer all of Jin China. After taking Jin and Xia China (along with some space in between the mongol homelands and the Caspian Sea) Ghengis Khan then led his mongol horde into the Middle East, taking over Iran, Afghanistan, and everything north from there up to Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org...While the siege on China took about a decade, the conquest of the Middle East took only TWO YEARS... Genghis Khan's armies were outnumbered roughly 400,000-450,000 to 100,000-150,000, but he overcame this handicap by developing complex and adaptable battle strategies to every situation he faced. Genghis Khan also pioneered heavy use of intelligence-gathering to vividly dissect how strong and resistant that potential targets would pose to him. "The Mongol intelligence network was formidable. The Mongols never invaded an opponent whose military and economic will and ability to resist had not been thoroughly and completely scouted. For instance, Subutai and Batu Khan spent a year scouting central Europe, before destroying the armies of Hungary and Poland in two separate battles, two days apart"http://en.wikipedia.org...The largest empire to EVER exist in human history was started by Genghis Khan, and it continued to grow long after he had died by his successors, who used his brilliant strategies to win countless other battles. Genghis Khan conquered territories several times larger and more populated than the Mongol homelands he came from, and did so despite being routinely and even horrendously out-manned, an ailment that can cripple even the best military generals. The Mongol empire would go on and expand into parts of Europe, all of China and Korea, and several other parts of the world. If you measured the greatness of military leaders purely by the amount of territory they conquered, than Genghis Khan is your undisputed champion as the best military leaderBetween 1206 to 1227, Genghis Khan conquered nearly 12 million square miles of territory, more than any individual in history, and more than twice as much land as any other person in historyhttp://www.history.com...http://www.history.com...\Genghis Khan is undeniably one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, military leaders of history.