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The Saudi have more planes than pilots more tanks than drivers more weapons than men in service, however everyone waits they win a war. Have they ever proved they can fight?Albeit having the third largest defense budget, Saudi military spent much of their money on charity and influence on their neighbor. Egypt and Libanon is one of their largest recipients, not to mention Saudi and their gulf allies notoriously using mercenaries forces to do their frontline duty. What can you expect from merc whom loyalties lies on money?
The same cant be said against competent Armies from Asian and Far East region, their modernization drive is paralel with their ever increasingly progress in HDI and Nationalism sentiment
Our conflict with the Chinese goes back to a time nobody can remember more 2,200 years ago. Being a weaker party we have resorted to different tactics and strategies some people will call Guerilla warfare today. Maybe we did use a time machine, travelling to the future buying the indo best seller "how to win against a superpower" at a bookstore and jumped back to the past to beat the Chinese. Or France or Americans. I wonder why the French and the US military central commands failed to buy the book?One question on Quora :
Is it true that Vietnam learns about guerilla warfare tactics from Indonesia?
Dithia Sofyan
No, it isn’t. This is a very popular misunderstanding in Indonesia.
Vietnam have long history with guerilla style warfare, first happen in war against ancient Chinese dynasty of Han in 200s BC. They also fought the Mongols with similar strategy. Later in modern times, Vietnam independence group Viet Minh fight the Japanese and the French using guerilla warfare. So the Vietnamese already well versed in this kind of strategy.
What is true is Vietnam military leaders use a book wrote by a top Indonesian guerilla fighter (served in Indonesian Army’s Siliwangi Division on the War of Independence against the Dutch from 1945–1949) named General Abdul Haris Nasution. The book was written in 1953 after the General was “set aside” because his involvement in an attempted coup against President Soekarno in 1952.
This book called “The Fundamentals of Guerilla Warfare” (Indonesian: Pokok-Pokok Gerilya).
This book is a part of a set of literatures used for reference on the concept of guerilla warfare in modern times. Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap said this book is one of the most important literature on this topic at the time, equal with Mao Ze Dong’s “On Guerilla Warfare”.
Not just Vietnamese, this book also became a reference in West Point Academy.
If the indo book lists all ingredients how to conduct warfare, the Chinese the French the Americans could spare $10 to buy the book and develop counter strategy. After crushing Vietnam and enslaving the Viet people, the trio China France America write the best seller "how to win against VN with 10 bucks" or "how to cure stupidity".
The story reminds me of people writing books how to become millionaire or how to educate children without having own kids and being dirty poor.