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Arab societies are intensely hierarchical = orders from down from the top, there is no counterflow upwards. This is exacerbated by the political appointees that
by aurizon 5y ago
Arab societies are intensely hierarchical = orders from down from the top, there is no counterflow upwards.
This is exacerbated by the political appointees that populate the top ranks.
With an incompetent's political appointee as captain, his authority can not be challenged - even as planes crash. This manifests in quasi military groups, the the civilian air forces, which have a preponderance of ex-military officers at the top.(it has been a long time since the last war, so the older air force people move into the civilian fleet and retain their culture)
These political appointees pay competent pilots to pass exams, even flying ones.
This forum discusses this culture as it manifested in Arab armies repeated losses to an enemy with fewer men and less equipment, but with a culture that demanded a win with no hierarchical encumbrances.
https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars
- kingofpandora 5y agoSad to see clap trap like "Why Arabs Lose Wars" used to explain anything, but especially an aircraft incident.
- aurizon 5y agoBear in mind that the cultural difference that exists in the military, which the air force is part of, has demonstrably spread to the command hierarchy where junior flight crew DARE NOT raise any issue that is at all critical of the Captain or other senior crew members. These hierarchical differences are well known in Arabic as well as Asian flight crews. Hard to see why the demonstrated dismal failure of the Arab armies and Air forces against the Israelis is called clap trap. It is the dismissal of a serious introspective analysis of how the army and air force failed even when they outnumbered their enemy almost 10 to 1 as clap trap that speaks to the ineffective state of those forces.