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How Silla won Korea by turning on its ally

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Winning a massive three-way civil war requires extreme tactical flexibility. This ancient kingdom essentially formed a massive alliance with a massive foreign empire just to completely crush their local rivals, and the very minute the dust settled, they instantly turned around and aggressively attacked their new heavily armed allies to take all the land.

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