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It's really quite simple though.

All of those arab countries up to Iraq, most recently, had soviet style military leadership styles. Where NCOs were virtually nonexistent in their armies and if an officer died or was unavailable for any other reason, the military unit ceased to function. The west, and aligned nations, place a much greater deal of autonomy unto NCOs. And the Chinese put an *enormous* amount of autonomy onto ncos and junior enlisted soldiers. This stems from the cultural revolution. The mention of the Chinese is an aside, but they have alliances with middle eastern nations now, and their command structure and orbat is more flexible than anything else that preceded it. Mao was nothing if not a good general, I must admit. Anyways

Here's why that was bad news for them: soviet style military leadership was notoriously horrible. It worked in ww2, it might have worked in the days before you could launch a missile across the planet. It doesn't work anymore.

Israel had a more adaptive and modern western style military command structure. And a shit ton of western money. At that time, it was mostly from France and the UK.

Now, things are different. The Arabs now use the western style military structure, or, more recently, the even more adaptive and less restrictive chinese military structure (despite China and the ussr both being communist, their militaries are the exact opposite in function).

So, israel becomes less and less effective as the Arab world adapts, arms itself, and adopts more modern chains of command into their armed forces, or insurgencies. That's why they have used the US to fight every war for them since they lost, badly, to hezbollah.

You can't just "kill the main bad guy and win" anymore, because there's always someone to replace them that's equally qualified and there's less importance placed on *individuals* than there used to be. Israel cant shoot a hamas officer or leader and cause them to wander around aimlessly without leadership anymore. That's the advantage of Israel's military in days past, that they no longer have because Arabs now do the same thing.