Armies of Sand
Armies of Sand Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for…
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Armies of Sand
Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for this pattern. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments.
In Armies of Sand, Kenneth M. Reliance on Soviet military methods, the poor civil-military relations of the Arab world, the underdevelopment of the Arab states, and patterns of behavior derived from the wider Arab culture, have all been suggested as the ultimate source of Arab military difficulties. Pollack assesses these differing explanations and isolates the most important causes.
Over the course of the book, he examines the combat performance of fifteen Arab armies and air forces in virtually every Middle Eastern war, from the Jordanians