Modern wars are not fought by numbers only. Technology is the key. One man with a machine can is better than 100 sword-carrying men standing in front of him; that' just a quick analogy.
This is exactly what is said before. And the fact still remains that Israel was heavily out numbered in such wars as Yom Kippur:
Take a look:
The Yom Kippur War of 1973
The combined forces of Egypt and Syria totaled the same number of men as NATO had in Western Europe. On the Golan Heights alone, 150 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syria tanks and in the Suez region just 500 Israeli soldiers faced 80,000 Egyptian soldiers.
As for technology, Israel often had inferior technology such as upgraded Sherman tanks, and Mirages that had awful dog-fighting performance yet the Israelis still defeated the Arabs with better training and better tactics. I do not think that anyone is arguing that technology is not key but superior training has proven that it can overcome better technology. And as of Today the Israeli military is one of the most modern militaries in the world, and yes their equipment is superior to Turkey's.
Anyway, beating Bedouin armies or 3rd world potentate was easy. But Turkey is different. I still say that in a one-to-one Turkey will eventually prevail. Turkey has more will to take casualties, more land to absorb hits, and is a ferocious fighter with a long, deep, proud history--and is also technologically not that bad either.
3rd world armies?
The Arabs had the best tanks at the time mainly T-54's, T-55's and T-62's. Most importantly the Arabs had the Mig-21 which was superior to most aircraft that Israel had, the Arabs also had the Mig-17 and Mig-19 which was superb at dog fighting and all three aircraft proved their capabilities in Vietnam. Israel operated mostly the Mirage III followed by the Phantom. Even Israeli pilots have said that the Mig-21 was better than the Mirage but it was Israeli skill that prevailed. The Israeli pilots were smart enough to know how to fight with the Migs and how not to fight with the Mirage. The Israeli pilots exploited weaknesses and looked for Arab pilots to hesitate.
Anyway, I keep repeating about the groundbreaking study by Mearsheimer and Walt called 'The Israel Lobby'. Here is an excerpt from that.
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt · The Israel Lobby: the Israel Lobby · LRB 23 March 2006
The war of independence
try Yom Kippur there is no one not even the Arabs that dispute the fact that Israel was outnumbered. And are you really mitigating the fact that the countries that Israel fought did not receive aid? Once Israel was at war with one Arab country another Arab country would attack Israel, is that not aid? While Israel received things such as fuel and perhaps weapons from the US the Arabs received the same from the Soviet Union. Not to mention all the various forms of aid from other Arab countries that were not directly involved in the fighting.
israel won because of air superiority, something the arabs lacked. air superiority probably plays the biggest role to win a war
Air superiority from superior training and tactics. The Israelis had spies in Egypt as well as great tactisioners and as a result of that the Israelis knew when, where and how to destroy Egyptian aircraft. The Israelis attacked Egyptian aircraft on the ground. In fact there was only two Egyptian aircraft flying in all of Egypt when Israel began its assault. Israeli ground crews were also world class, the turn around time for Israeli aircraft was nothing short of amazing. The Israelis managed to service, refuel, and reload Israeli aircraft at an unheard of rate--even for todays standards, as a result of that the Israelis were constantly able to fly sorties.
What a shamefull comment i nver would expect this from a Russian!
Do you mind telling me what was so 'shameful' about my comment? I merely stated that the Israeli military is world class, the only people that think otherwise are Muslims, and sorry if that sounded rash or bad but it's true.
Listen we dont even affraid of Russia who the hell is Israel?
This is silly. Russia is not an enemy of Turkey but even if it was the conventional Russian military would be more than enough for Turkey. Here is the thing Russia has weapons that Turkey does not, this means Russia can hit targets in Turkey but Turkey would have trouble hitting targets in Russia. Russia has long range strategic bombers, armed with long range cruise missiles as well as conventional bombs. We also have ICBM's that can hit anywhere in Turkey, couple that with the largest tank force in the world, one of the largest navies, Air Forces and Nuclear stockpiles and you do have something to be afraid of.
Scaring off some Arabs doenst mean anything for us.. the point is we (Turks) are not like those others. Remember our leader Erdogan (Born soldier) warned Israelis and the world that nobody should make the mistake to compare Turkiye to any other country! we are totally different Military is part of our culture it is in our genes we are a military nation we Turks can even fight you Russian and Israelis combined with Greece and all others really no big deal no problem at all its an honour for us even if we die all..
You will lose.
Read some history about our wars in the past, Russia never dared to attack Turks alone. Always made deals with UK, French from the west, you came from east combined you make chance. alone you lost all wars. Today not much changed, If you wanna test the battlefield is there.. Also Turkey-Russia,Greece, Cyprus we almost had war in the 90s for those Cyprus S-300 your navy would come to fight us? why did they abort the mission? Did we ever stepped back? did we ever fear to fight?
Seems like you need to read history, Turkey itself often fought with the British and French. Ever heard of the Crimean War? And it was Turkey that lost almost every battle and war to Russia. Reading this might be helpful:
History of the Russo-Turkish wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
