About the book: 1991 / The monograph examines the art of war, the complex of combat weapons, the structure of the military organization of the Turkic-speaking and Mongol-speaking nomads of Central Asia at the end of the 1st - first half of the 2nd millennium AD. e. A wide range of material, pictorial and written sources on the military affairs of nomads is analyzed. The causes and mechanisms of the emergence of new forms of weapons and methods of their collective use are explored. The book is intended for historians, archaeologists, and weapons experts.