In the past 400 years it seem that the middle east armies as been, well, less then effective. The glorius army of the past, which defeated armies much larger and blow there enemies to there knees, cant even handle local uprisings.
Just a short list for examples: Eygept -vs- Yemens rebels Iraq -vs- huge mobs of Iranians kids All the arabic nations -vs- Israel
I found some debates on this subject on the interweb, but i want to hear your ideas.
