Essay: The Russian Army compared to the Israeli army. Why is the Israeli army so outstanding?

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The Israeli army has beaten armies 10 times its size.[1]
The Israeli flag

The Israeli army has beaten armies 10 times their size (See: Why is the ISRAELI ARMY so POWERFUL? - VisualPolitik EN).

There is excellent evidence that God helped Israel during the Six Day War (See: GOD'S HAND IN THE SIX DAY WAR and Did God Help Israel During The Six Day War? and Six Days of Miracles and Fmr Israeli Commander: God Protected us in Battle).

Behold! Further evidence is given below!

Praying Hands.

There is excellent evidence that God helped Israel during the Six Day War (See: GOD'S HAND IN THE SIX DAY WAR and Did God Help Israel During The Six Day War? and Six Days of Miracles and Fmr Israeli Commander: God Protected us in Battle).
The Christian apologist Gary Habermas wrote: "Double-blind prayer experiments: where people pray for others with terminal illness. Habermas admitted that most such experiments have not worked, but the three that he knows of that have indeed worked were cases of orthodox-Christians praying for the sick."[2]

Israel's efficient mobilization of soldiers in Gaza vs. Russia's far less efficient mobilization of soldiers related to the war in Ukraine

See also: Israel's efficient mobilization of soldiers vs. Russia's far less efficient mobilization of soldiers related to the war in Ukraine

"The Israeli Defense Force can mobilize its reserves quicker than virtually every other country. In just a few days, it has 300,000 boots on the ground ready to go into Gaza compared to months for Putin to rally half that number to send into Ukraine." - Why the IDF is the world’s most effective military, Daily Mail video, 2023

Israeli's efficient mobilization of soldiers

Israel's efficient mobilization of soldiers: "Following last week’s surprise attacks and unprecedented incursion by Hamas fighters, Israel officially declared a state of war and initiated an enormous mobilisation. Sources report that 360,000 reservists have been summoned. They will supplement an active military force of more than 150,000, giving Israel half a million men and women in uniform."[3]

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Videos:

Russia's far less efficient mobilization of soldiers related to the war in Ukraine

Israel Defense Force documentaries


Israeli tanks, Gaza strip borders, 2007.

Given the small geographic size of Israel, some of its wars have been wars of survival.

"Ground in which the army survives only if it fights with the courage of desperation is called 'death.' ...In death ground I could make it evident that there is no chance of survival. For it is the nature of soldiers to resist when surrounded; to fight to the death when there is no alternative, and when desperate to follow commands implicitly.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Colonel Douglas MacGregor's influence on the Israel Defense Force

In 2019, Aviv Kochavi, Chief of the Israeli Defense Force General Staff made Colonel Douglas MacGregor's 2003 book, Transformation under Fire, required reading for all high-ranking officers. In 2020, Macgregor traveled to Israel to meet with the IDF General Staff and many of its senior officers to discuss General Kohavi's ongoing initiative to transform the IDF for future warfighting missions in the 21st century.[4]

Colonel Douglas Macgregor's meeting with Israel Defense Force Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi.

Israeli Defense Force officers lead from the front

The article The Spirit of Israel notes about Israeli Defense Force officers leading from the front:

“ Leading by example is one of the most important ideas. Whatever you want your fellow soldiers to do, you need to be willing to do it yourself.

In the IDF, in every mission, the commander (person in charge of the mission) leads from the front, walking first towards the mission. He tells his soldiers “Acharai” which means “Follow me.”

The higher you are in the chain of command, the closer you are to the front of the line, showing those junior what needs to be done. In the previous military action of Protective Edge, out of the sixty-seven fighters who fell in battle, the majority of them held the ranked Staff Sargeant and above. This includes six captains, three majors, and a Lt. Colonel, who fell in battle alongside their soldiers.

In the IDF, high ranking soldiers aren’t behind desks, calling the shots over the radio from a position of safety. You always see them in the field; you always see them walking around and interacting with the soldiers. You know that they care, and that they have your back. Everyone wants to follow a leader like this.[5]

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Douglas MacArthur, who obtained the highest class score on his West Point exam, achieved the rank brigadier-general faster than any previous general before him.[6]

MacArthur often led his troops from the front, sometimes without weapons or gas masks, as a means to raise their morale.[7]

General George Washington was also known for his instances of leading from the front in order to rally his troops.[8]

Documentary: Mossad (National intelligence agency of the State of Israel)

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Russia getting pummeled in wars in Russian history that hyper Russophiles will not tell you about

See also: Russia getting pummeled in wars in Russian history that hyper Russophiles will not tell you about

Map of Russia. Approximately 7% of Russia's land is arable and suitable for agricultural production.

Throughout its long history, from its formation as the medieval state Kievan Rus' in the 9th century to the Russian Federation as we know it presently, Russia has seen some bitter military defeats. Some of these have had devastating consequences, resulting, for example, in the loss of large swathes of territory, and even threatening the country's very existence. So, what are Russia's greatest military thrashings?" (Source: Russia's greatest military defeats). Also, to better see the historical context of Russia's wars, I highly recommend reading the Tufts University article at: The Long History of Russia and War.

The article Getting Pummeled in War Is a 200-Year Russian Tradition, indicates:

“ Despite President Vladimir Putin’s bluster yesterday that “it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield,” there’s no question the last twelve months have been terrible for his nation. But frankly, Russia has had not just a disastrous year, but a couple of bad centuries.

Just over 200 years ago, Napoleon invaded Russia, eventually occupying and burning Moscow before the Russian army, aided by a brutal winter, was able to eject the French Grande Armee at a cost of more than half a million casualties on both sides. In the middle of the 19th century, Russia lost the Crimean War against the combined forces of the UK, France and the Ottoman Empire, crippling the Imperial Russian Army (500,000 casualties in a two-year war), losing the Crimean Peninsula, and forfeiting the right to base warships in the Black Sea.

The Russian Navy was essentially destroyed by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, suffering a humiliating loss of eight battleships in the lopsided Battle of Tsushima while inflicting virtually no damage to the Japanese Imperial Fleet. A dozen years later, as the Russian empire imploded after the Bolshevik revolution, Western armies invaded to pick up the spoils. All that occurred before Germany invaded and destroyed much of the Russian army in the early days of World War II, notably at the battle of Stalingrad, where Russia suffered close to a million casualties in a year of fighting, albeit ultimately achieving victory.

A decade ago, as the supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I would meet occasionally with my counterpart in Russia, General Nikolai Makarov (not to be confused with General Vladimir Makarov, a failed Russian commander in Ukraine who committed suicide in Moscow this month). Makarov would remind me of those centuries of war and humiliation. “Too much history,” he once said. Russians have a lot of scar tissue from the last 200 years.[9]

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Wars Russia lost, Russian military defeats and other defeats:

Russia is corrupt

Vladimir Putin

See also: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

One the most basic traditional values is not stealing. As far as the traditional value of not stealing, Vladimir Putin doesn't practice this aspect of social conservatism.

The conservative thinktank, the Hudson Institute, has a good video on Putin's kleptocracy: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

Furthermore, please read: Vladimir Putin's cozy relationship with organized crime in Russia.

Russia has a long history of corruption. Putin's corruption is not some surprising fact of history. See: Corruption in Russia: A Historical Perspective

The Russian army and corruption

The article Russian military’s corruption quagmire states about the war in Ukraine:

“ On the operational level, the corruption in defense procurement has also likely undermined logistics, manifesting in soldiers receiving inadequate equipment and supplies on the ground. Poor logistics slows down the advancement of troops, undermines their morale and hinders military effectiveness.

Early on in the invasion, there were accounts indicating that some Russian soldiers received rations that had expired in 2015. Most companies responsible for providing food to the Russian military are connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin — the patron of PMC Wagner, the mercenary organization, and sponsor of the Internet Research Agency, which has been accused of meddling in the United States elections. Several years ago, Prigozhin’s companies were accused by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny of forming a cartel and gaming the state’s bidding system for defense orders, receiving contracts for several hundred million dollars. The quality of food and housing in the Russian military is reportedly worse than in its prisons, with unreasonably small meals and some carrying harmful Escherichia coli bacteria.

There are also reports that Russian advances in Ukraine were slowed by lack of fuel — and this in a country rich with oil and gas. But ineffective control over fuel consumption in the Russian military actually long preceded the war in Ukraine and had historically created opportunities for embezzlement — that is why fuel is often called the Russian military’s “second currency.” It is plausible that the long-standing tradition of corruption in fuel supply decreased the pace of Russian advancement in Ukraine.[10]

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Recommended articles:

Vladimir Putin and electoral authoritarianism

Putin lays a wreath a the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

A description of the book Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes by Vladimir Gel'man which is published by the University of Pittsburg Press states:

“ Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country’s essentially authoritarian rulers. Why and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated in Russia? What are the mechanisms of its maintenance, and what is its likely future course? This book attempts to answer these basic questions.

Vladimir Gel’man examines regime change in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day, systematically presenting theoretical and comparative perspectives of the factors that affected regime changes and the authoritarian drift of the country. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia’s national political elites aimed to achieve their goals by creating and enforcing of favorable “rules of the game” for themselves and maintaining informal winning coalitions of cliques around individual rulers. In the 1990s, these moves were only partially successful given the weakness of the Russian state and troubled post-socialist economy. In the 2000s, however, Vladimir Putin rescued the system thanks to the combination of economic growth and the revival of the state capacity he was able to implement by imposing a series of non-democratic reforms. In the 2010s, changing conditions in the country have presented new risks and challenges for the Putin regime that will play themselves out in the years to come.[11]

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The abstract for the 2018 journal article Regional elections in Russia: instruments of authoritarian legitimacy or instability? states:

“ This study examines three rounds of regional assembly and gubernatorial elections in Russia that took place in September 2015, 2016 and 2017. In particular, it examines the ways in which the regime has manipulated the elections to guarantee the victory of United Russia. The study shows that the Kremlin has adopted a new electoral strategy. Rather than engaging in the risky business of outright fraud during the vote count, which was an important factor in sparking mass protests against the regime, in the wake of the 2011 elections to the State Duma, the authorities have decided to concentrate their efforts on preventing opposition parties and candidates from registering for the elections. Whilst other forms of electoral malpractice have continued to be practiced, such as coercing or bribing voters to turn out and vote for United Russia, promoting “carousel voting” (multiple voting by groups of mobilised citizens), or ballot stuffing, much more focus has been paid in these elections on manipulating the registration process in favour of United Russia. As is clearly demonstrated, scores of opposition candidates and party lists, have been prevented from competing because of problems with their registration documents. However, whilst this strategy has helped United Russia win large majorities in all of the gubernatorial and assembly elections, it has also created lacklustre and predictable contests, and this in turn has led to a sharp decline in turnout, particularly in the gubernatorial elections. There is a real danger that these low levels of turnout may gradually erode the legitimacy of United Russia, embolden the opposition, and threaten the stability of the regime.[12] ”

Vladimir's Putin's propaganda machine

The below videos:

Critics of Vladimir Putin have often died under suspicious circumstances and he has shut down press outlets that are critical of him. Protestors of the Russia-Ukraine War have been arrested

Please click on these Google searches which show a lot of relevant results: Vladimir Putin kills opponents and Vladimir Putin shut down press outlets in Russia

Vladimir Putin is a ruthless dictator, but admittedly he is not as bad as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or the Chinese Communist Party. For example, he is letting people flee Russia with their money - even many men who are fleeing the country due to Russia calling up reservists. And Russia is a freer and better country to live in than China.

As noted in my previous essays, Ukraine is not considered to be a democracy for various good reasons. It is a hybrid regime and in a recent democracy index it was it was ranked 92 which is low, but Russia was ranked even lower at 144.[13]

Why Russia's religious persecution of Russian Protestants is not good for Russia

See: Why Russia's religious persecution of Russian Protestants is not good for Russia|Why Russia's religious persecution of Russian Protestants is not good for Russia

Reports of present-day restrictions on religious activity and/or persecution of Protestants in Russia

Baptists in Vladivostok, Russia

See also: Restrictions on religious activity and/or religious persecution in Czarist, Soviet, and contemporary Russia and Growth of Protestantism in Russia

Under Russian law, unregistered religious activity is illegal, such as public evangelism without a permit, as seen in some of the reports below:

2006 report of present-day restrictions on religious activity and/or persecution of Pentecostals, Baptists and Catholics

According to a 2006 report of CWNews: "Pentecostals, Catholics and Baptists are among the Russian religious communities to complain recently of police failure to protect them from attacks or other unwarranted intrusions during services, or of police raids to prevent them conducting religious activity-- such as giving out religious literature- - which they regard as legitimate, the Forum 18 news service reports."[14]

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References

  1. ↑ Why is the ISRAELI ARMY so POWERFUL? - VisualPolitik EN
  2. ↑ Christian Apologist: 10 Reasons for the Fall of Atheism by Gary Habermas
  3. ↑ Analysis: What will Israel do with all its mobilised soldiers?
  4. ↑ Ran Kochev [@idfspokesperson] (February 17, 2020). "הבוקר אירח פורום המטה הכללי את אל״ם בדימוס, דאגלאס מקגרגור לשיח אודות ספרו ״השתנות תחת אש״, שנבחר ע״י הרמטכ״ל לספר קריאה חובה לשנת 2019.‏מקגרגור, ממנתחי האסטרטגיה וההוגים הצבאיים של התקופה, תודה לך על שי מרתק!" (Tweet). Retrieved December 11, 2022 – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ The Spirit of Israel
  6. ↑ The Art of the Leader by William A. Cohen, Prentice Hall Direct (January 1, 1990)
  7. ↑ Douglas MacArthur
  8. ↑ George Washington as a military leader
  9. ↑ Getting Pummeled in War Is a 200-Year Russian Tradition by James Stavridis, Bloomberg News, February 23, 2023
  10. ↑ Russian military’s corruption quagmire, Politico, 2022
  11. ↑ Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes By Vladimir Gel'man
  12. ↑ Regional elections in Russia: instruments of authoritarian legitimacy or instability? by Cameron Ross, Palgrave Communications volume 4, Article number: 75 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0137-1
  13. ↑ Ranking of Countries by Quality of Democracy
  14. ↑ Whose side are police on? Russian Christians ask, CWNews.com, 2006
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