Why were castles/fortresses effective?

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Couldn’t an enemy army just march around the castle and take all of the unfortified farmland/resources? Also couldn’t a castle just be sieged out until the defenders starve?

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they were not universally effective, it depends on the era and also the place

in the east, the The Mongolians, and later the Russians who learned from them both would just build wooden palisade forts, and then just burn them down and burn all the crops whenever they were invaded, attackers were left with nothing and just ruined themselves trying to resupply in a wasteland

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