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Assassins and Templars at War - Ambushes and Ambassadors - Medievalists.net

A Lebanese mountain ambush triggered a diplomatic crisis revealing competing ambitions and fragile alliances between Templars, the king, and Nizari Assassins.
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Assassins and Templars: The Strategy of Death - Medievalists.net

Minor powers survived by using asymmetric methods—fanaticism, focused small-unit tactics, and targeted violence—rather than costly conventional armies.
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Fear and Loathing in Lebanon - Assassins, Templars and the World's Most Toxic Landlord-Tenant Relationship - Medievalists.net

The County of Tripoli was a strategically vital, chaotic, and hard-to-defend frontier where Templars and Syrian Nizaris clashed, severely straining Crusader military resources.
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Templars as Medieval Training Consultants - Medievalists.net

Poor march organization, inexperienced leadership, and failure to protect baggage trains left the French army vulnerable against Seljuk tactical attacks during the Second Crusade.
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