Message from @Kali Yuga
Discord ID: 492737038676918285
```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.```
"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**."
"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."
"**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."
And then I find the video someone made about this which already has two and a half million views
Eldest God Daughter is now 17
shoot me in the head
I got this Photo on facebook
with regards
she looks stunning
Ima gunna be batting them off like flies
oh well
May the best man win
Hadeolba
no u
How so dying?
Btw does timcast have adiscord server?
Or anyone knows places where can one have intelligent talk... or at least acceptably cognitive discussion?
Ah i found at least one
i couldn't log on for a while, so yeah @Deleted User
sup
nice
gay?
Nintendo is the Apple of game consoles
Anyone in Birmingham for the UKIP conference?
in the nes days
those were the controls
**G. Day#4035** was cleansed from the server.
you guys talking about the controls for these? https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/372507611284766722/492741004361859093/IMG_20180921_164959.jpg?width=1202&height=677
A was jump and B was to use shit
or run
that was the standard for platformers
fair enough
Why were we at everyone'd for a r/funny post?
am i missing something?
dont question it
Anything happen today on here
in announcements like 20 mins ago