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├───┐AxS:0
│ ├───┐ AxS:00
│ │ ├── AxS:000
│ │ │ ├── AxS:0001
│ │ │ ├── AxS:0002
│ │ │ └── AxS:0003
│ │ │ ├── AxS:00031
│ │ │ ├── AxS:00032
│ │ │ └── AxS:00033
│ │ ├── AxS:001
│ │ │ └── AxS:0011
│ │ │ └── AxS:00111
│ │ ├── AxS:002
│ │ │ └── AxS:0021
│ │ │ └── AxS:00211
│ │ └── AxS:003
│ │ ├── AxS:0031
│ │ └── AxS:0032
│ ├── AxS:01
│ │ └── AxS:011
│ │ └── AxS:0111
│ ├── AxS:02
│ │ ├── AxS:021
│ │ └── AxS:022
│ │ └── AxS:0221
│ │ └── AxS:02211
│ │ └── AxS:022111
│ └── AxS:03
│ ├── AxS:031
│ ├── AxS:032
│ └── AxS:033
├── AxS:1
│ ├── AxS:11
│ ├── AxS:12
│ │ └── AxS:121
│ │ └── AxS:1211
│ └── AxS:13
│ ├── AxS:131
│ └── AxS:132
├── AxS:2
│ ├── AxS:21
│ │ └── AxS:211
│ │ └── AxS:2111
│ │ └── AxS:21111
│ └── AxS:22
│ ├── AxS:221
│ │ └── AxS:2211
│ │ └── AxS:22111
│ │ └── AxS:221111
│ │ └── AxS:2211111
│ │ └── AxS:22111111
│ └── AxS:222
└── AxS:3
├── AxS:31
│ └── AxS:311
├── AxS:32
└── AxS:33
18. “No doubt the war machine is realized more completely in the ‘barbaric’ assemblages of nomadicwarriors than in the ‘savage’ assemblages of primitive societies” (ATP 359). This does not mean,however, that the war machine can be equated with the Barbarians. Nomadism is not a question ofbelonging to a particular population, but of maintaining particular practices. “The nomad distributes himself in smooth space; he occupies, inhabits, holds that space; that is his territorial principle” (ATP381). The barbarians, who leave the Steppes, no longer occupy the smooth space of nomos. The war machine is necessarily captured the moment it leaves the desert: “nomads have a specificity that istoo hastily reduced to its consequences, by including them in the empires or counting them among themigrants ...” (ATP 410).