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It's really a whole lot more simple than the gist of this article. The Arab's military strategy is the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.....
Mainly because they don't have the a-bomb. But that will change shortly.
I think the only thing you can say that the Arabs do better than anyone else, is their capacity to have those on the food chain serve as suicidal bombers.
Hezbollah and Hamas guerillas are basically uneducated, adolescent, hormone pounding, bullies. Israel needs to disarm them now. Once done a free Lebanon will prosper and there will be peace.
Syria will not join the fight...and Iran will not back Syria when push comes to shove. They are basically cowards.
Except for a few isolated victories they were generally ineffective during the crusades.
I saw a lot of this first hand watching Marines train Iraqis.
It was quite disturbing to see the huge difference in culture.
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The Koran, Islam = cult. If it walks like a duck, etc.. Islam has kept the Middle East in the ninth century. Independent, critical thinking not encouraged. (Or thinking at all, for that matter.)
They share the Nazi's biggest weakness. Their culture's requirement of total obedience means that they are incredibly slow at reacting to unforeseen circumstances (and in warfare, nothing goes as planned), because they have to wait for their orders before responding. They are not allowed to use initiative, intuition, or creativity, because it is not allowed in their daily lives. Once again, Freedom proves to be an incredibly powerful tool!
A vocabulary of about 1000 words
the mentality of a piece of toast
The bravery of a lemming,
and the tenacity of a cockroach.
Israel is showing the world today that the Islamists are stunned and saddened when we do not fight the U.N.-effiminzed battles that they have prepared for.
No question that sexual frustration plays a big factor in these angry young men. Their religion does EVERYTHING to deny them their natural urges, including forbidding them to even LOOK at a woman.
A big reason -- perhaps the biggest -- they hate us so much.
Then lay on top of all of that, the fact that so many Arab states got massive military help from the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and that included the construction of those typically Soviet heavily-centralized command-and-control systems.
The ultimate expression of that was over the Bekaa Valley when the Israeli and Syrian air forces clashed. The IAF didn't just have the best American hardware, it had American-style training that emphasized flexibility and initiative. The Syrians were using Soviet-style ground-based control that robbed their pilots of all their ability to act independently. Combine that with the Israeli superiority in aircraft and pilot skill, and you ended up with the most one-sided aerial battle since the Marianas Turkey Shoot.
Fascinating article, thanks for posting it! It explains a lot about how the "fourth-biggest army in the world" (Iraq) could crumble like a stale cookie in front of us twice in thirteen years.
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Enlightening indeed.
Some quick light reading for you
OK, so their culture causes / affects their problems. And Islam is a large part of their culture, so can we draw a conclusion here?
I'm sure Israel uses all this information well to their own advantage.