# Conquest

`kaal:entity:conquest`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `conquest`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782193-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-023) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A decentralized organization cannot be conquered by attacking it from the outside: when attacked, the group merely decentralizes further, and its members become more autonomous and more devoted to the founding principles of the organization.
  > This illustrates that a decentralized organization cannot be conquered by attacking it from the out- side. When you do, the group merely decentralizes further. Members become more autonomous and more devoted to the principles upon which the organization was founded.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
- [3782193-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-024) [mechanism/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- The Spanish strategy of capturing or killing a group's leader, which succeeded against the Aztec and Incan empires, was impossible to apply to the Apaches because they had no static, official rulers and no rigid power hierarchy to manipulate.
  > The Apaches had no static, official rulers, which made it impossible for the Spanish to replay their strategy of killing or controlling the leader of each new territory they invaded. The Apaches had no rigid power hierarchy to manipulate.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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