once you grip the head of a serpent, the rest of it is a simple rope.

Art of warfare on land

The basis of Mongol warfare was unadulterated terror. Massacre, rapine and torture were the price of defeat. Whether enforced or negotiated..... The whole apparatus of terror was remorselessly applied to sap the victims will to resist, and in practical terms this policy of "frightfulness" certainly paid short-term dividends. Whole armies were known to dissolve into fear-ridden fragments at the news of the approach of the toumans...... Many enemies were paralyzed...... Before a [mongol] army crossed their frontiers.

Oliver liss described

He lived on the wrong coast. He looked,acted, and probably thought of himself as if he was a movie star. He was handsome in that way the hollywood elite cultivated, except that he didn't seem to work at it. Maybe it was simply superb genes. In any event, when he entered a room he required no further entourage than his own personal sun burning at his back. He was tall, lean, and athletic, engendering bitter envy in those men he met.
He liked his drinks strong, his meat red, and his women young and buxom. He was, in short, precisely the sort of man Hugh Hefner had envisioned when he created playboy.