БОБУР ҲАРБИЙ МАҲОРАТИНИНГ ҚАНДАҲОР ЖАНГИДА НАМОЁН БЎЛИШИ

Аннотация

Numerous historians, political scientists, military specialists, as well as scholars engaged in the study of the history of language, have expressed diverse views and published scholarly and popular-scientific articles and treatises on the tactics and strategy of warfare employed by Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur, who made a significant contribution to the development of world military affairs and military art. Nevertheless, the fact that Babur’s army— modest in number—entered the battlefield with courage against enemy forces several times larger, as well as Babur’s development of various methods to turn the outcome of war in his own favor, his coining of appropriate military terms for these methods, and his bold implementation of them in practice, as documented in such primary sources as Baburnama and Tarikh-i Rashidi, calls for extensive specialized research. Proceeding from this observation, the present concise article examines the military tactics employed by Babur in 913 AH near Kandahar, in the locality of Khalishak, during the unequal confrontation with his brothers Shahbek and Muqim. In particular, the paper discusses Babur’s innovative arrangement of troop formations on the battlefield, the deployment of units in a completely new manner, and the terminology used to designate these military divisions