Posted on 02/27/2017 10:51:00 AM PST by ForYourChildren
How did a country smaller than El Salvador with a population of eight million and few natural resources become a military superpower within a few decades?
In The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower (St. Martin's Press, 2017), authors Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot explain this remarkable phenomenon. Calling on their experience as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veterans and seasoned national security analysts, they present an intriguing and engrossing account of Israel's defense capabilities development. From a country lacking bullets and aircraft, Israel transformed itself into one of the most effective militaries in the world and the sixth-largest arms exporter globally. Today, Western powers, including the U.S., France, the UK, Russia and China, all come to Israel to learn and establish joint ventures.
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It’s very simple:
Failure was not an option.
Only six million Israeli Jews and yet they are leaders in medical technology, military technology and too many other fields to enumerate.
Compare with 1.7 billion muslims whose greatest achievement in the modern era is the suicide bomb belt for children.
Bill Clinton gave it to them.
sorry. I misread the title. I thought it was China.
Israel wanted to be Athens but was forced to become Sparta as well.
Golda Meir said, “I can forgive the Arabs for killing my sons. What I cannot forgive them for is that they have turned my sons into killers.”
“was forced to become Sparta as well.”
Sheesh ! Think what they could have done if not bothered by the local retards, Huh ???
The article skirts one major (and politically incorrect) contributing factor to Israel’s rapid ascension in military know-how: a population with a much higher than average IQ. Imagine if it were to occupy 20X it’s current land and have greater access to vital natural resources.
I don’t know, most of the countries in Asia that have thrived since the Second World War have been poorly resourced. Think Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Taiwan. What has oil done for the people of Saudi Arabia (other than the elite)?
Thank for French for this. France was a major arms exporter to Israel until De Gaulle cut them off. The US stepped up as the major arms supplier for Israel but the Israels learned a lesson they need to be able to rely on themselves.
Good points. Though give Israel greater access to natural resources and more land and it would be as successful an economy as Germany or Japan, with far greater military capabilities. It’s ability to defend and secure its territory would be that much greater.
Without question, though, and out of necessity, Israel will be the country that invents/develops the first truly economically practical source of non-carbon-dependent renewable energy. Likely in this century.
All of the nations on your list are non-Muslim. What if we compare Malaysia, Pakistan,Indonesia and Bangladesh? Not much thriving there.
The continuous exercise of vigilance will have that effect, every time it is forced upon beleaguered people.
Darwin was not completely wrong. Israel has been faced with “nature, red in tooth and claw”, and so far, has been victorious over various predators on all sides.
Israel plays the long game - The Talpiot Project teaches soldiers and the military how to think - Read this and be amazed!
http://www.thetower.org/article/inside-the-idfs-super-secret-elite-brain-trust-talpiot/
It could be that the Holy Creator (God) had something to do with it.
American $$.
My wife and I spent two weeks in Israel in 2014. What a remarkable country. Construction cranes were everywhere. As were young families, pregnant women and young children. You could feel the energy crackling in the air. This is a country with faith in it’s future.
Because every country that surrounds them wants them exterminated from the face of the Earth.
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