Message from @Reaps

Trebjonn

2018-09-21 15:25:59 UTC

https://clips.twitch.tv/GlutenFreeCoweringSowFunRun

jigantie

2018-09-21 15:26:02 UTC

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:31:27 UTC

I did post some interesting articles here about why Arab armies generally perform so poorly

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:31:38 UTC

let's see if I can dig one of them up..

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:32:10 UTC

https://www.meforum.org/articles/other/why-arabs-lose-wars

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:32:21 UTC

```It is a truism of military life that an army fights as it trains, and so I draw on my many years of firsthand observation of Arabs in training to draw conclusions about the ways in which they go into combat. The following impressions derive from personal experience with Arab military establishments in the capacity of U.S. military attaché and security assistance officer, observer officer with the British-officer Trucial Oman Scouts (the security force in the emirates prior to the establishment of the United Arab Emirates), as well as some thirty year's study of the Middle East.```

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:32:39 UTC

"Kenneth Pollack concludes his exhaustive study of Arab military effectiveness by noting that "certain patterns of behavior fostered by the dominant Arab culture were the most important factors contributing to the limited military effectiveness of Arab armies and air forces from 1945 to 1991." These attributes included **over-centralization, discouraging initiative, lack of flexibility, manipulation of information, and the discouragement of leadership at the junior officer level**."

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:32:58 UTC

"In contrast to the usual manner of European warfare which he terms "face to face," Keegan depicts the early Arab armies in the Islamic era as masters of evasion, delay, and indirection. Examining Arab warfare in this century leads to the conclusion that **Arabs remain more successful in insurgent, or political warfare—what T. E. Lawrence termed "winning wars without battles."**

Even the much-lauded Egyptian crossing of the Suez in 1973 at its core entailed a masterful deception plan. It may well be that these seemingly permanent attributes result from a culture that engenders subtlety, indirection, and dissimulation in personal relationships."

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:33:55 UTC

"**Most Arab officers treat enlisted soldiers like sub-humans.** When the winds in Egypt one day carried biting sand particles from the desert during a demonstration for visiting U.S. dignitaries, **I watched as a contingent of soldiers marched in and formed a single rank to shield the Americans; Egyptian soldiers, in other words, are used on occasion as nothing more than a windbreak.** The idea of taking care of one's men is found only among the most elite units in the Egyptian military. On a typical weekend, officers in units stationed outside Cairo will get in their cars and drive off to their homes, leaving the enlisted men to fend for themselves by trekking across the desert to a highway and flagging down busses or trucks to get to the Cairo rail system. Garrison cantonments have no amenities for soldiers. The same situation, in various degrees, exists elsewhere in the Arabic-speaking countries—less so in Jordan, even more so in Iraq and Syria."

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:38:30 UTC

And then I find the video someone made about this which already has two and a half million views

Reaps

2018-09-21 15:38:35 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk4Yu42g0I