Posted on 03/14/2002 10:30:22 PM PST by Gladwin
1 Saeed M. Badeeb, The Saudi-Egyptian Conflict over North Yemen 1962-1970, (Boulder, Westview Press: 1986), pp. 33-42.
2 R. D. McLaurin, The Battle of Zahle (Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.: Human Engineering Laboratory, Sept. 1986), pp. 26-27.
3 Anthony Cordesman and Abraham Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War, Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War, (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 89-98; Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Boulder Colo.: Westview Press, 1985), pp. 22-223, 233- 234.
4 Kenneth M. Pollack, "The Influence of Arab Culture on Arab Military Effectiveness" (Ph.d. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996), pp. 259-261 (Egypt); pp. 533-536 (Saudi Arabia); pp. 350-355 (Iraq). Syrians did not see significant combat in the 1991 Gulf war but my conversations with U.S. personnel in liaison with them indicated a high degree of paranoia and distrust toward Americans and other Arabs.
5 David Kahn, "United States Views of Germany and Japan," Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Before the Two World Wars, ed., Ernest R. May (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 476-503.
6 Gerhard L. Weinberg, The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933-1936 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1970), p. 21.
7 Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Penguin Books, 1984), p. 18.
8 Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987), pp. 186-187. The German assessment from T. Dodson Stamps and Vincent J. Esposito, eds., A Short History of World War I (West Point, N.Y.: United States Military Academy, 1955), p. 8.
9 William Manchester, Winston Spencer Churchilll: The Last Lion Alone, 1932-1940 (New York: Dell Publishing, 1988), p. 613; Ernest R. May "Conclusions," Knowing One's Enemies, pp. 513-514. Hitler thought otherwise, however.
10 Avraham (Bren) Adan, On the Banks of the Suez (San Francisco: Presideo Press, 1980), pp. 73-86. "Thus the prevailing feeling of security, based on the assumption that the Arabs were incapable of mounting an overall war against us, distorted our view of the situation," Moshe Dayan stated."As for the fighting standard of the Arab soldiers, I can sum it up in one sentence: they did not run away." Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976), p. 510.
11 John Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), p. 18.
12 Ibid., p. 387
13 John Walter Jandora, Militarism in Arab Society: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1997), p. 128.
14 T. E. Lawrence, The Evolution of a Revolt (Ft. Leavenworth Kans.: CSI, 1990), p. 21.( A reprint of article originally published in the British Army Quarterly and Defense Journal, Oct. 1920.)
15 Author's observations buttressed by such scholarly works as Eli Shouby, "The Influence of the Arabic Language on the Psychology of the Arabs," Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Culture, ed. Abdullah M. Lutfiyya and Charles Churchill (The Hague: Mouton Co., 1970), pp. 688-703; Hisham Shirabi and Muktar Ani, "Impact of Class and Culture on Social Behavior: The Feudal-Bourgeois Family in Arab Society," Psychological Dimensions of Near Eastern Studies, ed. L. Carl Brown and Norman Itzkowitz (Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1977), pp. 240-256; Sania Hamady, Temperament and Character of the Arabs (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960), pp. 28-85; Raphael Patai, The Arab Mind (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), pp. 20-85.
16 Pollack, "The Influence of Arab Culture," p. 759.
17 Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993, pp. 21-49.
18 Paul M. Belbutowski, "Strategic Implications of Cultures in Conflict," Parameters, Spring 1996, pp. 32-42.
19 Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War (New York: Harper-Collins, 1996), p. 383.
20 Saad el-Shazly, The Crossing of the Suez (San Francisco: American Mideast Research, 1980), p. 47.
21 Jordan may be an exception here; however, most observers agree that its effectiveness has declined in the past twenty years.
22 Pollack, "The Influence of Arab Culture," pp. 256-257.
23 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take A Hero (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), p. 494.
24 Khaled bin Sultan, Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the War by the Joint Forces Commander (New York: Harper-Collins, 1995), pp. 368-69.
25 Based on discussions with U.S. personnel in the area and familiar with the battle.
26 Yesoshat Harkabi, "Basic Factors in the Arab Collapse During the Six Day War," Orbis, Fall 1967, pp. 678-679.
27 James Lunt, Hussein of Jordan, Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace: A Political Biography (New York: William Morrow, 1989), p. 99.
28 Patrick Seale, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), pp. 197-99; Shazly, Crossing of the Suez, pp. 21, 37.
29 Samir A. Mutawi, Jordan in the 1967 War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 161.
30 James A. Bill and Robert Springborg, Politics in the Middle East, 3rd Ed. (New York: Harper-Collins, 1990), p. 262.
31 Anwar el-Sadat, In Search of Identity (New York: Harper and Row, 1978), p. 235.
32 Hamady, Temperament and Character of the Arabs, pp. 184-193; Patai, The Arab Mind, pp.147-150.
33 Joseph Malone, "Syria and the Six-Day War," Current Affairs Bulletin, Jan. 26, 1968, p. 80.
FACT: 90%-95% OF ALL THE CONFLICTS ON THIS PLANET TODAY INVOLVE MUSLIMS FIGHTING NON-MUSLIMS OR EACH OTHER!
It a nutshell: They are stupid and incompetent. Also, the real God is not on their side, and their "Allah" sucks.
The article deals more with why they are stupid and incompetent. The South Vietnamese officers were stupid and incompetent, but no one would say Arab culture is similar to Vietnamese culture.
I realize that this was probably written many years ago when an "Arabist" had a different connotation than it does today.
The dynamics have changed. Although it is not probable that the habits and customs of culture will change any time soon, the last thing we need to do is to "train" Islam in the intricacies of a winning military strategy.
The stakes are starkly too great now.
Please, let's not oversimplify.
These killers are real and there are too many of them; and yes, they are still mainly killers.
They kill, burn, rape, pillage and loot mainly for the virgins they get here and now.
That hasn't changed. 20% of the loot is due to their god (through the Caliph), the other 80% is distributed among the invading army.
This is still central to the spread of Islam.
Oh, the stories I could tell if only I had the time and the bandwidth.
I do hope you find the time and have the inclination to provide many here with additional insight.
The reality of the Muslim world is stranger than fiction, but you won't find many dogoders taking the time or making the effort to look.
I also have the benefit of many personal friends who have spent years in Muslim countries, including Egypt.
The stories I have heard makes it crystal clear why the middle east muslims and Muslim countries in general are such a garbage pit of humanity.
Not to be combative, but may I?
The above article says they cheat, have low integrity, are puffed up about rank and class structure they didn't earn, treat their enlisted like scum, are paranoid, lack character, and are cowards.
In short, everything Mohammad was, and Christ was not.
I agree with you about the sickness in the Ottoman Empire, starting in 1600 or so.
Not to worry, though. The silly buggers didn't find it necessary to buy any of the expensive, custom-made spare parts that would routinely need to be replaced. It seems there are now roughly 100 F-14 Tomcats sitting under a hangar somewhere, with cobwebs in the cockpits.
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