# Why Arabs lose wars...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arabs-lose-wars/131041>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 6, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arabs-lose-wars/131041 "2002-10-06T06:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arabs-lose-wars/131041/41 "2002-10-14T18:08:50Z")

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For want of a hyphen my last paragraph makes no sense. That should read:

“A bigger, **better-armed** force may not necessarily win…”

And then there is this:

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> I saw nothing in the book itself (which was actually published only shortly after the disintegration of the Soviet Union) which cribs from the above-cited article, but I don’t discount the possibility to revised decisions.

Apparently I translated myself through Babelfish. Please read, “I don’t discount the possibility of later revised editions (which steal from that article).” Or something like that.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arabs-lose-wars/131041/42 "2002-10-14T20:42:52Z")

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Of course part of Israel’s victory in '48 may have been less a failing of the Arab side but a desparate situation on the Israeli side. For Israel it was do or die … literally. The Arabs didn’t percieve that it was a war for survival for them; the Israelis did. Nothing like iminent death to motivate a fighting man.

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