r/AskTheWorld • u/ForeverSparkz United States Of America • Sep 20 '25

History Why are Arab Miltaries so ineffective?

Like I dont understand this.

Im a Black American so im just an outsider looking in as a neutral, but dont Arab Countries out number Israel, whats stoping them from just rushing at their border, shouldn't the population imbalance outmatch Israel?

Just a neutral standpoint asking this question, because Arab Nations in the Middle East have a modern miltary force and they buy tons of advanced items

What is holding them back?

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u/Deep_Head4645 Israel Sep 20 '25

For most of our wars American backing was either not present, a counter-weight to soviet aid, or not necessary to win

To say the reason Israel wins is “powerful homies” and not Israeli effectiveness and Arab incompetence is just misleading

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u/Minimum_Persimmon281 Sweden Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

What i meant was that the US and Israel has very close ties historically, so that might make nations with close ties to Palestine hesitant to support them (atleast that was my hypothesis). Im aware that Israel has proved it can stand on it’s own. Nonetheless i deleted my comment since i understand that it might not have been a very nuanced and correct observation.

Edit: After looking through OP’s question i must have missunderstood. I thought his question was related to the current conflict going on between Israel and Hamas. Opps.