El Opinador Compulsivo

Otro muy interesante artículo en lo de Ace of Spades, por qué los árabes pierden las guerras. Es de 1999, pero creo que vale la pena para los que les interesa el tema.

Quiero aclarar que no se trata de una predicción de cómo termina el conflicto actual entre Israel y Hezbollah (y Hamas, Líbano, Siria, Irán y demás):

Arabic-speaking armies have been generally ineffective in the modern era. Egyptian regular forces did poorly against Yemeni irregulars in the 1960s. Syrians could only impose their will in Lebanon during the mid-1970s by the use of overwhelming weaponry and numbers. Iraqis showed ineptness against an Iranian military ripped apart by revolutionary turmoil in the 1980s and could not win a three-decades-long war against the Kurds. The Arab military performance on both sides of the 1990 Kuwait war was mediocre. And the Arabs have done poorly in nearly all the military confrontations with Israel. Why this unimpressive record? There are many factors — economic, ideological, technical — but perhaps the most important has to do with culture and certain societal attributes which inhibit Arabs from producing an effective military force.