World War III Part 3

Why the hell did i only make this 3 rounds? Lets just get down to it. Iraq and Afghanistan. Seeing as how they are currently under US occupation I doubt that they will be able to give any kind of support to a war against Israel, particularly Afghanistan since there is no timetable set up for withdrawing troops, in fact Obama committed 30,000 more troops there a year ago so us troop numbers in Afghanistan show no sign of reducing. Even though we plan on withdrawing from Iraq relatively soon the Iraqi government in no way could field a modern or large enough military to put up any kind of fight against Israel. Palestine meanwhile still isnt an independent country, so any military put together by them would simply be rebels who would then receive orders from other nations. These other nations would include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Pakistan may contribute support, however their longtime enemy has never been Israel, it has always been India. Any support that Pakistan would contribute would be minimal because of the hatred they share towards India. http://www.jihadwatch.org... As for the Arab countries vs Israel, Egypt has recently undergone a massive revolution where no actual government has been restructured to run the country, it is still a transitional government organized by the military so any large commitment of troops by Egypt against Israel would only cause massive civil unrest i the country, or rather MORE massive civil unrest. Syria and Lebanon troops = 360,000 total. Saudi Arabia troops = 230,000 total Iran troops = 500,000 total http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... Israel is officially listed at 175,000 however they have a conscription military which during times of war has allowed the country to field a military of well over 250,000. Although this number pales in comparision to the number of troops other Arab countries can field, Israel has already fought large wars such as these in the past. In the third Arab-Israeli War, Israel fought on their own against Arab forces outnumbering Israel 550,000 to 250,000. Israel won the war and occupied the entire Sinai Peninsula, The Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and parts of Lebanon. Israel lost just south of 900 troops, the Arab countries lost anywhere from 13,000 to 23,000. And they did it all in about 6 days..... http://en.wikipedia.org... Israel has a history of repelling any massive invasion by a coalition of Arab countries, while heavily outnumbered, with no foreign countries also providing aid, and they made it look easy. ======================================================================================================================================================== Russia, As I have shown in the last two debates. Has a very weak military, is not modern, is spending a very small amount of money on its military, and 80% of its economy is built on exporting resources to parts of Europe. If Russia were to expand into Eastern Europe they would overrun smaller nations in their path such as Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and a variety of other smaller countries that lie in their path. Russia's current standing military is estimated to be at just over a million (using the same site as above) but the actual number of troops that Russia could actually put on the battlefield is questionable because of their inability to supply a large number of troops over vast distances. When Russia intervened in Georgia they had a far mroe massive military but problems riddled the affair and made Russia look rather weak. "The Russian Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (Cï¿½I) performed poorly during the conflict. The communication systems used were obsolete, resulting in one case where the commander of the 58th army was reported to have communicated with his forces in the midst of combat via a satellite phone borrowed from a journalist.Due to the absence of satellite-targeting, precision-guided munitions could not be used. - http://www.carlisle.army.mil... If you read other parts of that article you can see how Russian generals claim Russia could not fight a modern war, that equipment used during the soviet Era was obsolete, how Russia's swift victory came mostly from errors made by the other side, and even how one commander had to borrow a cellphone from a journalist to contact his commander because the communications equipment they were using were obsolete... Meanwhile the active militaries of the small European countries to be overrun by Russia would total Ukraine = 130,000 Belarus = 72,000 Poland = 99,000 Latvia = 5,000 Even though that adds up to a third of Russia's military, the military of Georgia who fought Russia was only about 20,000. If Russia couldnt swiftly handle a nation with a miltiary of this size they would pale in performance towards a coalition of governments with a combined military 15x greater than that of Georgia. If Russia were to try to overrun these countries they would fight themselves into submission before they even went head to head with one of my European powerhouses, Germany. So to summarize: Israel could easily handle any Arab attack being heavily outnumbered because they have done it before and won in a matter of days while most of the Arab world is still undergoing Democratic revolutions, movements, and crackdowns. Russia may field a large military but because of their weaknesses shown in the Georgia conflict it can be assumed that they would fight poorly in trying to annex eastern Europe before they even went head to head against Germany.