eli5 Why is it so important to „capture“ the capital city in a war?

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Does it really change the outcome of the war? Does a country fall when the capital city is captured?

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Capturing the capital in the modern world would be largely symbolic. It wouldn’t be any more or less significant than capturing any other major city. The leaders don’t need to be in the same country as one another in order to collaborate and respond in real time, much less the same city. At the first sign of a military presence moving on the capital, the leadership would be at the airport and scattered to the winds rather promptly.

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