Saturday, March 29, 2003
(Via Internet Haganah) de Atkine | Why Arabs Lose Wars
A very interesting and concise essay on the reasons modern Arab armies don't seem to have fared well. Well worth a read.
ARABIC-SPEAKING ARMIES have been generally ineffective in the modern era. Egyptian regular forces did poorly against Yemeni irregulars in the 1960s. Syrians could only impose their will in Lebanon during the mid-1970s by the use of overwhelming weaponry and numbers. Iraqis showed ineptness against an Iranian military ripped apart by revolutionary turmoil in the 1980s and could not win a three-decades-long war against the Kurds. The Arab military performance on both sides of the 1990 Kuwait war was mediocre. And the Arabs have done poorly in nearly all the military confrontations with Israel. Why this unimpressive record? There are many factors — economic, ideological, technical — but perhaps the most important has to do with culture and certain societal attributes which inhibit Arabs from producing an effective military force.[...]
I would agree that most Arab nations have performed fairly poorly. The exceptions appear to be the Jordian Army which has not been a push over. Unfortunately the Iraqi Republican Guard which did fight demonstrated a lack of professionalism and skill that reulted in them fighting and generally dying without accomplishing anything.
What puzzles me is that the Turks, though not Arabs have a highly professional and tough military. I cannot understand why they should do well when the Arabs seem to perform so badly.
thats not true , and i dont agree, The arabs win in 1956 war, 1973 war, and the iraki-iranian war 1981, the arabs also win in south lebanon 2000, and thats is the fact. But the israeli propaganda machine refuse the reallity