Lol your a joke. Comparing artificial Iraq to us is the biggest insult. To make you happy let's go and start wars right? How stupid can someone be its unbelievable.
All countries are artificial. However if you look at the ME region all of Iraq's neighbors have a completely different history and identity. Historically Arabia, Persia, Mesoptamia and the Levant have been their own for thousands of years, Iraq could be seen as occupying the heartland of Mesopotamia thus.. that explains it further. The same way Saudi Arabia holds Arabia and Iran holds Persia.
Pal your country is in ruins, you have no unity, a quarter of your country is semi independent, isis with their Toyota trucks ran over Iraq army with thousands of tanks and humvees and helicopters. At the moment we are fighting inside borders in East, in Iraq with cross border operations and helping fsa at the same time, all this a couple months after the coup when more than 10k soldiers and half the top tier generals left and so many pilots gone.
Ok everyone tomorow we going to fight a country our size tomorow to please this f1000 member.
Seriously though comparing our military history to most countries in the world is incomparable. Not having much wars is actually the achievement that you don't seem to understand. It's called deterrence, but i doubt you will understand. Wars don't bring anything in this century other than destruction.
I didn't call for war.
Iraq doesn't have thousands of tanks, they had less than 250 operational tanks in 2014.
Military history... Did you notice I said modern wars, all middle eastern countries have a long military history.
If you are already at a war don't be foolish enough to threaten a much more powerful country with war.
Turkey could've taken all of Cyrpus if it wanted to, ofcourse it's a smaller and much weaker state but that is not the reason why Turkey invaded it in the first place?
In todays modern warfare tanks are extremely vulnerable, multiple Russian tanks have even been taken out by ATGMS (not talking about Syrian T-90's). Multiple Iraqi M1 Abrams taken out by ISIS SVBIED's and ATGMS as well.
War on PKK would've ended years ago, but thanks to funding from other nations they are still up and running! (How do they acquire crap loads of ATGMS and MANPADS?). Guerrilla warfare is different from an actual war. It's all hit and run after they catch you offguard (just like Soviets getting stomped by guerilla-style warfare from taliban).
I didn't threaten, you're the so called brave wolf that's going to chew us up.
Tanks are vulnerable for sure, I bet you would've denied that before Turkish intervention in Syria and blamed the tank destructions in Iraq and Syria on incompetence of tank crews despite some being labeled successful by the US coalition themselves, which I can link but it doesn't matter here.
The PKK monkeys acquired MANPADS and ATGM's thanks to erdogans policies, his policies might benefit Turkey's strength externally but is costly in the way of life's of your troops.