Are Arabs shit at war?

I see that a lot of people on this board say Arabs are bad at war. How true is this statement? I'm arab, for the record.

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they're GOAT guerillas, but awful at conventional, so awful Jews manage to push their shit in.
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What Arab military victory are you most proud of?

I'm Israeli btw

They used up their collective racial martial ability early on when Khalid ibn al-Walid was born

They were good in the early Middle Ages. They did alright during the crusades, not as good as they should've but not the worst. They were the punching bag of the Turks for a while and never recovered. Their modern armies are worse than African militaries, and that isn't an extrapolation, look up the Toyota War.

Yeah, you need like a Million Military Points for him, right? But he's worth it.

Iraq held it's own well against Iran.

Read Kenneth Pollack's "Arabs at War". It's a very descriptive monograph. I could quote some passages if you'd like.

P.S. what Arab country are you from? Or are you just an American or Frenchie of Arab descent?

They did not. Iraq's performance against Iran was among the most embarrassing of any Arab army.

Really? Why did Iran suffer so many losses then?

Because Iraq had anywhere from 5-1 to 10-1 (depending on year) advantages in every area of materiel, which is what actually matters in modern war. And, point of fact, no one actually knows what Iranian losses were. Nor Iraqi ones with any certainty. If you believe each side about their own losses, which is usually a good bet as far as wars go, losses were about even.

Syria my dude

The casualty ratio for Iran was 2:1, and 1/4 of those casualties were due to chemical weapons.

Even on the conventional front, Iraq had an arms advantage from the beginning in pretty much every field except air (until 1985, when Iraq started getting Mirage planes from Europe).

The war turned into a war of attrition, which Iran couldn't win due to them being embargoed by both the Western and Eastern bloc countries.

>losses were about even

Most sources say 500k dead on the Iranian side and 250k dead on the Iraqi side.

In reality had it been any other country vs Iran they should have steamrolled Iran in a few months, Iran was in terrible shape in 1980. The fact that it didn't go that way is simply a testament to how incompetent the Iraqis were.

>Most sources say 500k dead on the Iranian side and 250k dead on the Iraqi side.

"Most sources" don't say that. Aside from the claims made by the sides themselves we have nothing but guesses to go on. And by the Iranians' own records, 123,220 killed, 60,711 missing, and 42,875 POW.

>In reality had it been any other country vs Iran they should have steamrolled Iran in a few months, Iran was in terrible shape in 1980. The fact that it didn't go that way is simply a testament to how incompetent the Iraqis were.

Well, not any other country, but any other non-Arab country with Iraq's ridiculous armory, yes.

Modern Arabs yeah. They're good at guerrilla warfare (been at it for a long time after all) but suck a monstrous cock at regular warfare.

>The war turned into a war of attrition, which Iran couldn't win due to them being embargoed by both the Western and Eastern bloc countries.
also when they attempted to cripple Iraq economically by mining the persian gulf and attacking tankers flagged to countries like Panama or Liberia that were carrying Iraqi oil the superpowers stepped in to stop them. It was clear that Iran was not going to be allowed to win.

well arabs did fuck byzantium up quite hard

Muslims are great at war.

Arabs are shit at war.

Maybe you should look up the Toyota War a little more and see how much help Chad received

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Islamic unity is their strength.

Arabs have literally been reduced to the tribal niggerism of pre-Islamic Jahilil. no wonder they can't do anything right

Just look up the Six Day War.

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How can arabs be so bad at fighting when they spend so much money?

ISIS is getting the shit knocked out of them.

Saudi Arabia is not Arabia.

Saudi arabia is ISIS though.

Pollack has a whole chapter on Saudi Arabia and how their military is the worst of all Arab armies. The tl;dr version is that their military is basically a country club for the rich. It's entirely dependent on foreign 'advisors' from e.g. Pakistan even to do basic shit like maintain equipment.