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]
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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:

Videos: 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! Evidence that the modern day of Israel was the hand of God (Biblical prophecy and other evidence):

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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]

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Why Israel wins its wars

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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]

Flag of Russia

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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

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

See also: Mossad

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Russian military

A Russian soldier cutting barbed wire at the Battle of Stalingrad

See also: Russian military weaknesses

Russian Army

Russian army and logistics:

"The history of war proves that nine out of ten times an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been cut off...” - General Douglas MacArthur.

Logistics quotes:

General Robert H. Barrow of the Marine Corps emphasized that amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics. Forget being an armchair general. If you want to be a pro, start with logistics 101.

General Robert H. Barrow, USMC (1980): “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.”

"Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN said, "Logistics is as vital to military success as daily food is to daily work".

Russian air force

Source: Has Russia’s military improved enough to take on NATO?, 2024

Bomber jet Su-24.
"Perhaps the weakest of Russia’s military branches is its air force.
Its consistently poor performance is matched by poor doctrine and equipment losses that have been hard to replace. Unlike Western militaries, Russia’s air force isn’t trained for strategic air campaigns, focusing solely on supporting ground units where needed.
Despite being at least four times the size of Ukraine’s, it was unable to destroy airfields, ammunition dumps, and radar sites in the opening hours of the invasion.
This is very different to Western air forces which, while also supporting ground units, are able to comprehensively blind its enemy, destroying key targets and large formations on the ground. They can cause strategic damage in the opening minutes of any conflict, enabling their forces to advance relatively unhindered.
In an effort to offset this weakness, long-range missiles have been used to great effect, penetrating deep into Ukraine despite Kyiv’s comprehensive air defences.
Iranian drones used as cheap cruise missiles are launched in barrages, soaking up and threatening to overwhelm Ukrainian defences.
The air force has leveraged its stand-off capabilities and launches glide bombs, often from within Russia that are accurate down to a few metres, their large warheads easily destroying Ukrainian targets."

Russian mercenary leader Georgy Zakrevsky: "Drones are flying all over central Russia, right up to Moscow and St. Petersburg. They even attacked the Kremlin."[1], The Hill, 2024

Russian navy

"The outlook is a return to the underinvestment and decay of the 1990s.
Efforts to get major warships back to sea, such as the carrier Admiral Kutzenov or battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, increasingly seem like a Pyrrhic victories. The sunk cost of these modernizations appear now to be a question of national pride more than increasing naval capabilities. There are reports in Russian State media that the Nakhimov will sail for the first time in around 25 years this month. But there is a significant caveat; it will sail without its nuclear reactors running. While there may be some practical value to these plans, they appear more for show. The Soviet practice of symbolic milestones just before year end is alive and well.
"The Russian Navy’s modernization plans are now significantly curtailed. Russia may be hoping that the incoming government in Washington will push a favourable solution in Ukraine, but the damage to their their naval plans already appears too deep."

Russian mercenary leader Georgy Zakrevsky: "Our Black Sea fleet is being pushed out. It’s being pushed out as if we were not a great power with a great fleet, but some third-rate country."[2], The Hill, 2024

The Russian military and corruption

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 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.[4]

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Recommended articles:

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Russian army vs. guerilla warfare

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Loss of the Wagner Group and its implications at the time

Russian Military Performance and Outlook

Russian military vs. NATO

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Facts related to NATO and miscellaneous:

The United States States has a significant number of allies and strategic partnerships such as the: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (NATO is made up of 32 countries. In 2024, the combined population of the 32 member countries of NATO was about 973 million people[5] and the combined GDP of all 32 NATO members was $45.93319 trillion.[6]); Aukus (a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States); the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), and the Organization of American States (OAS). See: Who Are the US Allies: A Comprehensive Guide to America’s Key International Partnerships and Advancing U.S. Alliances and Partnerships through Security Sector Governance Initiatives

As of 2024, the USA pays 16% of NATO's total budget.[3]

Russia's challenges in protecting its borders: Arguments that Russia is a failed state

"Britannica explained that a failed state is the one that “cannot protect its national boundaries.” April 26, 2023 head of the Russian Committee of defense of the Russian State Duma suggested that Russian citizens should be mobilized to protect Russian borders acknowledging that Russia has no resources for that, comparing the current inability of the state to the previous mighty USSR." - Russia has failed as a state, Modern Diplomacy, 2023.

In addition, the Ukrainians invading Russia in a surprise attack in the Kursk region of Russia in August of 2024 demonstrates that Russia cannot protect its border. In November of 2024, the Ukrainians still occupied some territory in Kursk.

For more information, please see: Will Russia become a failed state within 10 years? Is Russia currently a failed state? Will Russia eventually become a failed state?

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.[7]

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

Better demographics and a country being stronger. Israel and Russian demographics and their future. Russia's demographic crisis

Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.45 children per woman (Source: Russia is putting pressure on women to boost the birth rate — but demographers say the main problem is too many people dying).

In order to have a replacement level of birth, a country must have a fertility rate of 2.1 births per woman.

Below are articles on why superior economics makes a country stronger militarily and economically:

Currently, Russia has a demographic/population crisis

Russian and Israeli fertility rates

In order to have a replacement level of birth, a country must have a fertility rate of 2.1 births per woman.

Russia's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 1.45 children per woman (Source: Russia is putting pressure on women to boost the birth rate — but demographers say the main problem is too many people dying).

Israel's fertility rate in 2024 is estimated to be 2.92 children per woman. This is still the highest fertility rate in the OECD, and is roughly double the average for the OECD as a whole (See: Reflections on Israel’s Exceptional Fertility).

The main consequences of Russia's demographic crisis according to the Russian demographer Salavat Abylkalikov

The Russian demographer Salavat Abylkalikov says the main consequences of Russia's demographic crisis will be the following:

“ According to the average version of the UN forecast, Russia's population by 2050 may be about 133.4 million people, which is 14th in the world and below countries such as Egypt, the Philippines, and Mexico. But if Russia goes not according to the average, but according to the low option that is quite likely at the present time, then with a population of 123.2 million people we will drop to 16th place and will already be neighbors with Tanzania and Vietnam. Thus, the price of switching to the low scenario could be -10 million people, as well as a decrease in the place in the top countries in terms of population. Moreover, the low version of the UN forecast did not include too low or even negative migration growth.

A smaller population means a country's lower economic potential, a shrinking domestic market, worsening demographic problems and an aging population, as well as a decrease in the country's geopolitical power. The population size still correlates with the weight in international relations, the ability to promote their interests on the world stage. And the declining population for the largest country in the world may cause some neighbors on the continent, especially the eastern ones, to be tempted to solve their internal growing problems by some external adventures. But will Russia find anyone and how to fight back, will there be allies?[8]

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"Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time." - International relations scholar John Mearsheimer

Russia, the war in Ukraine and the adverse effects on its economy

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Sun Tzu, Chinese general and reknowned military strategist

See also: Why wars and hyper-militarism often make a country weaker

Sun Tzu wrote:

  • "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Sun Tzu
  • "What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations." - Sun Tzu

War in Ukraine and inflation in Russia

See also: Guns and butter economic concept

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia's war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but the price of butter itself is now soaring as surging inflation distorts parts of the economy. The price of a block of butter has risen by 25.7 per cent since December, according to the state statistics service.

'The Armageddon with butter is escalating,' Russian economists claim on Telegram.

See: Butter prices soar in Russia amid surging inflation in war economy, CBC News, November 2, 2024 and Russians Resort to Stealing Butter Amid Shortages, Newsweek, October 29, 2024

War in Ukraine and the falling value of the Russian ruble

How long do post WWII wars last? Some statistics.

Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization & think tank analyzing global issues.

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

“ Analyzing data compiled by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) on conflict termination since 1946, 26 percent of interstate wars... end in less than 30 days and another 25 percent end in less than a year. Wars that end within a month last on average eight days, and 44 percent end in a ceasefire or peace agreement. Of wars that last over a month but less than a year, only 24 percent end in a ceasefire. When interstate wars last longer than a year, they extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.[9] ”
Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates that most wars lasting over a year extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.[10]

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.[11]

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Wars Russia lost, Russian military defeats and other defeats:

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.[12]

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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.[13]

MacArthur often led his troops from the front, sometimes without weapons or gas masks, as a means to raise their morale.[14]

General George Washington was also known for his instances of leading from the front in order to rally his troops.[15]


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

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."[16]

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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. ↑ Russian military’s corruption quagmire, Politico, 2022
  5. ↑ NATO alliances, Worddata.info website
  6. ↑ Funding NATO, NATO website
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Until the end of the century, we will be enough." Demographer Salavat Abylkalikov - about whether Russia is dying and what to do about it, Russian demographer Salavat Abylkalikov
  9. ↑ How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine, 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website
  10. ↑ How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine, 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website
  11. ↑ Getting Pummeled in War Is a 200-Year Russian Tradition by James Stavridis, Bloomberg News, February 23, 2023
  12. ↑ The Spirit of Israel
  13. ↑ The Art of the Leader by William A. Cohen, Prentice Hall Direct (January 1, 1990)
  14. ↑ Douglas MacArthur
  15. ↑ George Washington as a military leader
  16. ↑ Whose side are police on? Russian Christians ask, CWNews.com, 2006
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