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Why Arabs Lose Wars
- bobosha 12y agoThe world's thinnest book? Arab military victories.
- paganel 12y agoThey made it all the way from the Arabian Peninsula to Central France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours) in just under 100 years, and they managed to hold on to the Middle East, Northern Africa and Spain for ~500 years, so I wouldn't call them non-winners. And then the Mongols came (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_%281258%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_%281258%29) and things weren't so good anymore.
- kissickas 12y agoAren't they still holding on to Northern Africa, in reality? Go to a village in Morocco and try speaking Arabic, they will be insulted that you are trying to use the language of their colonizers. Yet the governments in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and what's left of a government in Libya all seem to be made up of Arabs, although I'm not an expert on the region. And Egypt is indisputably Arab today, although of course ancient Egypt (as recent as Cleopatra, at least) was not. Egypt was one of the first Islamic conquests in the 700s and has stayed Arab since. They may have lost it for a time, but they conquered it forever, essentially, even including Western Sahara (the Bedouin de facto government there is made up of people who claim to be descendants of an Arab tribe).
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- raziel2p 12y agoThat was a really interesting read. I can't remember getting such a direct opinion with concrete examples on a foreign culture before.
- crazychrome 12y agoMilitary forces are copies of the communication structures of inhibiting societies... another proof of Conway's Law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law