Khalid ibn al-Walid is the Greatest Military Leader Ever

Khalid ibn al-Walid is the Greatest Military Leader Ever.

He beat the superpowers of the Romans (who conquered nearly all of Europe) and the Persians that had greater numbers and equipment with only a small rag tag band of bedouin nomads.

HE NEVER LOST.
Involved In 100 battles and over 100 duels 1 versus 1.

Never retreated.

In the battle of Yarmouk, he led the Muslim nomads of 20,000 to defeat the Romans numbering 200,000 in 6 days. The Romans never recovered after this and then proceeded to lose Jerusalem right after.

In the Battle of Battle of Firaz, he led 15,000 Muslims against 150,000 COMBINED forces of Romans, Persians and Christian Arabs and won. He was outnumbered 10:1

He actually defeated the Prophet Mohammed in war.

In the first battle ever between the Muslims and the Romans, Battle of Mu'tah, where he defeated 200,000 Roman fighters with 3,000 Muslims while Khalid Ibn Walid broke nine swords on the enemy.

Under his military leadership, Arabia became united for the first time in their history under the Caliphate.

It is said there was no part of his body that wasn't wounded, yet he never rested until his death

Showed versatility against similar nomadic troops in the Ridda wars, and against a totally different Persian enemy in Iraq and modern Iran and later against Byzantium.

Often changed losses into crushing victories.

Never ransacked the territories he invaded, sparred the lives of women, children and old people.

Captured the daugther of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire. When asked to return by the Emperor, he said "Take her as a gift, there shall be no ransom."

In 638, at the zenith of his career, he was dismissed from military services.

"Is the standard of this army a black one? Is the commander of this army a tall, powerfully built, broad shouldered man with a large beard and a few pock marks on his face? Then beware of fighting this army. " Byzantine priest. (633 A. D)

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Yeah and some gook with a couple ponies and a toothpick to his name took on most of the eurasian continent and won. BTFOing a whole bunch of abdullah mohammed ibn wotevers in the process.

Khalid ibn al Walid wasn't alive then but surely would have won.

Like to see Mongols beating the world's two superpowers being outnumbered 10:1 at the same time.

Most of his victories are poorly attested and probably the result of cooking the books like other sources often do, however the Byzantines did corroborate many of the ass kicking he did. He may be the greatest every but its hard to evaluate what he did based on the information we have.

You think china was a pushover in those times?

Were these the same two superpowers that just fought a 30 year war between each other?

You think conquering the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire at the same time within only a couple years with a bunch of nomads that never accomplished anything ever in their history really like that with no technology was easier?

Dude was a second in command who got cucked out of any real inheritable power of nobility. All his success was illusory since the defeat of muhammed in Anatolia. Dude also helped kill a bunch of shiites for no reason including an emperor. Hes trash.

so what was his key to success
just dont say islam

Gods Wrath was stronger than his love for muslims west of the levant at that time. And asking ghosts to fight for you is abominable.

He wasn't second in command.

". All his success was illusory since the defeat of muhammed in Anatolia"

Stop being a troll.

Genius.

Don't know what your point is but my point is that the Mongols certainly could not accomplish what he did...hell the Mongols couldn't even defeat Vietnam or Hungary or even the fucking Mamluks.

This guy took the strongest of the strong and never lost a single battle with a bunch of camel nomads.

>Vietnam
Horse Archers don't fair well in a jungle

Most of it was corroborated though....I mean the land they take over was well written about obviously.

Genghis Khan and his sons couldn't even conquer India so calm down.

Made up goatfucker numbers

Thought so too until read it was confirmed by Byzantine sources.

It's not that Walid was a great commander, it's that the Romans and the Persians were weak.

Please read a history book. They were the world's strongest empires at that point in history. They were weaker than what they were before but they definitely weren't weak.

>200k
Mate you have to be really fucking dumb if you believe that any country could raise an army as big as that at the time.Now go and fuck some goats or something retarded saracen

Sadly your entire post is a waste, based on a false premise. Khalid held sub-command in a battle which he lost and retreated from. Walidfags BTFO

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix is the only true answer.

No state at the time would have the logistics to raise an army that size.

I suggest you educate yourself because even the Byzantines reported that. It's well recorded. Read the book on it by Paul Halsall, The University of Manchester.

Please educate yourself.

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>even the Byzantines
What the fuck makes you think that’s a better source? They inflated numbers all the time.

It is a logistical nightmare to raise an army as big as that now,imagine how impossible it would be for the Bizantines after a brutal war against the Persians to raise 5% of their male population for a single battle.

so who the motherfuck do you want to know it from? the Chinese on the opposite side of the world?

The numbers were well documented by all who were involved in the battles. Read a fucking history book like the one I linked instead of being a fucking faggot with no education.

Historian Dave Nicolle wrote in his book that the Byzantines would’ve had 10-20k near Constantinople. Walter E Kaegi is another historian and he puts the number around 15,000.

I bet you think that there were a million Persians at Thermopylae.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine–Sasanian_War_of_602–628#Long-term_consequences

None of them said that. I can't find where they said that.

I bet you are uneducated.

and? It doesn't change the fact that they were still the two superpowers of that time.

Man you all need to stop detracting from this man's accomplishments because he was a sandnigger.

kys
subutai is easily superior to any muslim meme commander

Historical estimates are always lower, from about 10% lower to less than 50,000 in battles where the Muslims recorded 200,000 and the Byzantines recorded 140,000.
Also the Byzantines had been getting BTFO by the Sassanids only to win single battles and return the borders back to normal while the Sassanids were overextended, decentralized at the end, and had gone through civil wars.
For some reason Arab armies were very well organized and trained.
does anyone have info on how this happened?

vietnam > genghis khan

vietnam > genghis khan and subatai

Pure delusion. Both Rome and the Sassanids were in no position to fight off an invasion from the sandnigger tribes. Khalid is nothing more than a meme commander, barely acknowledge in the military histories.

Persia had to stave a massive famine but the Roman's still had a numerically large and technological advantage over the invaders tbf.