you are the one who is making the claims not me, unless you are talking about oil production, which i said from the first post it is the only thing we have, or you disagree with that too?
show me one country in the whole world, with financial capabilities and natural resources like us, yet we still don't have formidable army by "middle eastern" standards, also we don't have military industry, so god forbids if get in war and the US refuses to sell us spare parts or ammunitions or sanctions us, the few tanks and jets we have will be good for scrap only!
i'm not going to talk about our life standard which is of course good when compared to North Korea or Zimbabwe as you said mentioned earlier, but i can compare it to other GCC countries, or malaysia?
not going to compare it to sweden or norway or netherlands (though they have less money)........i'm talking about military but you keep mentioning these things, so you happy now?
you missed the point entirely, it is true we have better army than sudan or yemen for example, but who wants to invade yemen?
i disagree, our local military is not strong enough to deter any invasion, as i said we don't even make our ammuntion and spare parts, if israel attacks us it is out of the question they will control the north west, we will eventually win probably but because of the local resistance not our military capabilities.
i will not mention other examples, because i don't want to stir things.
our military is not strong enough at all, iranians were in the red sea delivering weapons and men to houthi, using also Eritreans islands, what did we do? nothing.......because our manpower and ammunition is not enough.
the US is leaving us sooner or later, also if they don't leave us, is that what you want? to be under uncle sam protection?
you don't wan to have great military of your won? specially when you have all the resources and man power you need?
tell me what execuses we have to not have an army of 500.000 soldiers at least and miliary industry??
ok maybe i misunderstood you, but really you think kuwait, bahrain, qatar etc have any significant miliray power at all?.....i ask you to reconsider again.......qatar for example have military of 7000 and if i remeber correctly 7 jet fighers
Oman i think they have 30 very old jet fighters and about 40 challenger tanks only!
(i'm writing from my memory but sure 100% the numbers are close to that)
turkey only cares about syria and norther iraq, other than that they will not get involved in any military conflict, specially with out the US premission.
Not shi`its, they are mercenaries sent by albashirn the war criminal who is ruling sudan now, also there was somalis, eritreans and Etheupians as well, they are getting paid by iran to join houthi, there was some lebanese from hezbollat as well.
i also did not want to mention that, but some americans we stationed in Arar, even prince sultan admit it on TV, saying it is jut radars only for humanitirian reasons.
the point relations with them are not good at all, maliki few weeks ago was on TV saying Saudi Arabia doesn't want to improve relations etc
you said we have" brotherly" relations with them, remember?
No, thats why i said that we don't learn, he was conspiring with saddam against us, killing our citizens on southern borders, now we host him here?
see my point?
if he gets a chance he will stab us in the back again like he did before, same thing for others you think they are our allies (except for GCC countries if we don't count qatar).
Well egypt is a good friend under mubark and now the military rule, but i'm not sure about the future, the MB were conspiring from behind our backs with iran, qatar and the US.......not sure what is the next regime in egypt will be like, don't get over optimistic my friend.
fahd was a good king, رحمه الله
any way what i'm saying Saudi Arabia needs to have a very strong and big army, also needs a military indusrty ASAP, other wise our future will be full of troubles, with this sort of nieghbors we have around us and all the conspiracies they are planning against us
we don't lack the manpower and we don't lack the cash or the resouces, we have no execuses