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Iran has historically been the only country who boosts the record for the biggest military upsets in human history.
In 3 occasions biggest military upsets in human history happened in Iran and now I want to explain why this happened and why this will most likely happen again in any form of future military struggle.
1: Macedonia vs Persia in the battle of Issus
The Persians outnumber the enemy by a large margin. 40.850 vs 600.000
2: Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb vs Persia
Battle of Firaz: 15.000 vs 150.000
Battle of Nahāvand: 30.000 120.000
At this point in time it was a norm to see a larger Iranian forces to fall into shock defeats where the odds was heavily in their favor.
3: Mirwais Hotak vs Safavid dynasty
This one is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not that 300 movie which was fake but this one was real and authentic event that took place. A tiny tribe from Kandahar conquered the whole of Iran and this happened just a little less then 300 years ago in the 17th century.
The safavid dysnasty controlled western part of Afghanistan and whole of Iran but what happened is that they arrested a youth called Mirwais Hotak and later he and his tribe revolted and this tiny harmless revolt led by 30.000 Kandahar tribesmen destroyed the entire safavid dynasty and conquered the Whole of Iran and Afghanistan. This is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not even Sun tzu's campaign is equal or close to it.
Once Kandahar fell to Hotak the Safavid in desparation kept sending reinforcement to recapture it quickly but everything send was destroyed by Mirwais Hotak and his small outnumbered tribesmen who eventually had so much success that they decided to march into Iran and capture the capital and Isfahan.
The odds was like 1000000:1
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Aside from all that what is the real cause of this bizarre events and defeats?
the answer is moral? The people are kept against their will in Iran and they never tend to be true to their roots. example when ever they leave Iran most Iranians leave Islam and denounce their citizenship. The Iranians have historically been good at adminstration and just basically traders and war has not been for them and achieved much of their success thru adminstration and slave forces.
They are not true to what they stand for so there is always lack of motivation to fall back on when the going gets tough.
In today's modern Iran the same issues are there. The people just want someone to cause regime change whether it comes from inside or outside and they seek economical gains rather then being in line with the Mullah regime as you saw recent demonstrations against the regime due to economical crisis.
In all areas Iran is a paper-tiger and much smaller neighbouring countries can upset them at any given time.
If you think militarily and equipment wise even smaller neighbouring nations such as UAE can upset them by claiming air-dominance while being better equipped overall and just being ruthless by destroying big cities and infrastructure could upset and de-moralize them.
THAAD and other forms of anti-missiles will limit them while they will definitely lose the air-dominance. So they will have to resort to manpads and anti-tanks because they will definitely lose firepower advantage. The key for them will be defensive wall and that can only work if the attacking country is not aggressive because if they are then they can level much of the cities to the ground and try to do as much as possible damage.
Israel can overcome Iran in a 1v1 type of war without any asistance
You are correct, IF we use personal/human years/time. But when you talk about countries, 50 years will translate to about 10 personal years or something like that. All i,m saying is that 50 years isnt a long time when we are looking at a country via a national/ state timeframe.50-100 years is not long enough to be counted?
A century is roughly 5-6 generations...
Just to give you some perspective, if someone occupies Iran today and the occupation ends in the year 2119, would you consider it trivial?
Iranirans ruled the world for entire history and only got three minor defeat.
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Because their survival was at stake, literally.Israel showed us in 1967 they can fight and push real hard.
Because Arabs, sorry semites in general, arent good warriors. facts!Neighbor arab countries couldn't hold them. Only egypt did some recovery later on in the war.
True. Sometimes all u need is the right ally/alliance. Look at Assad- he only survived because Syria had the "right" allies.Israel is under very wise guidance. Never underestimate them. Despite their tiny size.
they say months after his victories in Pakistan and India he was wanted to continue his conquest eastward but his troop were tired and wanted to go back so they mutineered and he had to come back for that he choose a southerly route that was passing through desert of kerman tat was resulted in the loss of more than half of his trop so (the passing of that desert and reaching Persepolis alone according to those historian took more than 2 month there at passargad he stayed for some times and he severely punished the guards who had stolen from the tomb of Cyrus the great and stayed for some time then moved toward babylon which took at least as long as reaching Persepolis from India , there he took several policies that seriously offended the Macedonian and greak soldiers who were withhim , e stayed there for some times and participate in a feast and drink to much in that feast and fall ill and after that his condition worsened and after 2-3 weak he did .That's what the Greek historians of a retreating Alexander army reported!
The spear which was thrown at Alexander was drenched in poison
sorry guys I've nothing against Pakistan but this padavan is strong in bulshit and needs to learn something against history and incidentally history is one of my favorite subjects.Seems like Iran has been a cake walk for everyone even some afghan rag tag tribal lords overrun it . What a travesty
the reason is also that Achameniched didn't took Macedonia threat seriously and even in second war with macedonia after his defeat hey have recorded in history that achamanechide king said I now understood the number of troops is very important in defeating the enemy.Well if we assume the article true then we could conclude that at least Persians have been present all the time what about them? and despite wars Persia have been always able to revive again ... the reason behind Macedonia triumph Persia was Persia civilization, pluralism & good governance that led Macedonia to flourish & thrive becoming a problem for Iran
a small correction , the Portuguese took those island from Spain , and we took the Island back from Portuguese .On Safavid well they managed to retake Iranian islands from Spain in Persian gulf
Iran has historically been the only country who boosts the record for the biggest military upsets in human history.
In 3 occasions biggest military upsets in human history happened in Iran and now I want to explain why this happened and why this will most likely happen again in any form of future military struggle.
1: Macedonia vs Persia in the battle of Issus
The Persians outnumber the enemy by a large margin. 40.850 vs 600.000
2: Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb vs Persia
Battle of Firaz: 15.000 vs 150.000
Battle of Nahāvand: 30.000 120.000
At this point in time it was a norm to see a larger Iranian forces to fall into shock defeats where the odds was heavily in their favor.
3: Mirwais Hotak vs Safavid dynasty
This one is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not that 300 movie which was fake but this one was real and authentic event that took place. A tiny tribe from Kandahar conquered the whole of Iran and this happened just a little less then 300 years ago in the 17th century.
The safavid dysnasty controlled western part of Afghanistan and whole of Iran but what happened is that they arrested a youth called Mirwais Hotak and later he and his tribe revolted and this tiny harmless revolt led by 30.000 Kandahar tribesmen destroyed the entire safavid dynasty and conquered the Whole of Iran and Afghanistan. This is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not even Sun tzu's campaign is equal or close to it.
Once Kandahar fell to Hotak the Safavid in desparation kept sending reinforcement to recapture it quickly but everything send was destroyed by Mirwais Hotak and his small outnumbered tribesmen who eventually had so much success that they decided to march into Iran and capture the capital and Isfahan.
The odds was like 1000000:1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aside from all that what is the real cause of this bizarre events and defeats?
the answer is moral? The people are kept against their will in Iran and they never tend to be true to their roots. example when ever they leave Iran most Iranians leave Islam and denounce their citizenship. The Iranians have historically been good at adminstration and just basically traders and war has not been for them and achieved much of their success thru adminstration and slave forces.
They are not true to what they stand for so there is always lack of motivation to fall back on when the going gets tough.
In today's modern Iran the same issues are there. The people just want someone to cause regime change whether it comes from inside or outside and they seek economical gains rather then being in line with the Mullah regime as you saw recent demonstrations against the regime due to economical crisis.
In all areas Iran is a paper-tiger and much smaller neighbouring countries can upset them at any given time.
If you think militarily and equipment wise even smaller neighbouring nations such as UAE can upset them by claiming air-dominance while being better equipped overall and just being ruthless by destroying big cities and infrastructure could upset and de-moralize them.
THAAD and other forms of anti-missiles will limit them while they will definitely lose the air-dominance. So they will have to resort to manpads and anti-tanks because they will definitely lose firepower advantage. The key for them will be defensive wall and that can only work if the attacking country is not aggressive because if they are then they can level much of the cities to the ground and try to do as much as possible damage.
Israel can overcome Iran in a 1v1 type of war without any asistance