Most cadets tend to be that age.
That is often if not always the case everywhere. Aristocrats and upper class elites rarely make the 'bread and butter' of any army. It is the poor and mostly rural people make most of the soldiery - excluding of course officer ranks.
Your being modest. I would go further. How about 7 out of the 11 empires?#
Thank you for being honest here. You are saying to the Pakistanis (who are jumping up and down) is, just because some Arabs applauded their Pak officer "guys we Arabs don't have any respect for Pakistanis - indeed we look down at them". Please don't use this video as representing anything. It is just staged for the camera. Quote below.
You have my respect for being brutally honest.
Yes.
Yes, but in many countries joining the army for an extended period of time or a short one is seen as something positive and not limited to social classes. On the contrary the upper classes tend to send their sons to military academies if there is a military tradition in the family. This is also the case in KSA but they don't join this or similar regiments but other ones.
However in KSA mostly (not always of course) such cadets of this age are either people who have performed badly in school or people who don't know what to do. They are not representatives of the actual professional full-time army in KSA and as I wrote, I suspect that many of them won't be seen anywhere in 6 months time or less. That was the point here as previous users were talking about some special forces and this representing the actual professional/full-time army. None of this is true.
It is 4 actually. Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid. Including a large number of kingdoms, sultanates, emirates, imamates, sharifates, emirates on 3 continents (Asia, Africa and Europe).
The point here in relation to what I wrote and what I have written afterwards should/cannot be misunderstood unless one wants to do such a thing.
What are you blabbering about? They obviously like him but such affection has been shown to locals and other foreigners too. It's just that a bit more is added due to the camera being present and their young age - hence the showoff part. There is mention of snapchat too. I do not doubt their affinity for this man, why should I? Or maybe you do?
And if anything this does not put Arabs in a bad light (unlike what some people were writing without knowing the facts or details) but rather show us as welcoming and affectionate people which we also are by large. Not only it also shows that we respect Pakistan. So this show of affection was not enough? You would have wanted them to kiss his feet and proclaim that Arabs are beneath Pakistanis before you would be satisfied?
@salarsikander
I am not angry about anything and I do agree with some of your points and I agree that it is very hard if not impossible to emulate such a past and our ancestors actions in this regard much less so in the past 100 years which have quite frankly, been chaotic and much less due to the problems I mentioned and recognized myself which every sane Arab does, mainly the chain of command, the abilities of our current rulers, the neighborhood we live in, harmful outside interference in the past 100 years that frankly everyone in the Muslim world experienced etc. However that is one thing, the historical legacy is another. The post WW2 era does not equal all of history and moreover, have in mind, which other of your compatriots also wrote themselves, that things are moving in the right direction in this regard.
But I think that you will agree with my main points (I see that you do) and more so when I refer to the usual suspects in this regard (belittling Arab military capabilities) which seen objectively speaking (when history is included) is quite hilarious to witness more so for us Arabs. Such behavior, as I wrote earlier, is not found the other way around or if found very, very limited.
In short we currently have no delusions on this front unlike for instance a certain neighbor of ours. I think that you have the same problem with a certain neighbor of yours to the east as well.