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Iran has historically been the only country who boosts the record for the biggest military upsets in human history.
In 3 occasions biggest military upsets in human history happened in Iran and now I want to explain why this happened and why this will most likely happen again in any form of future military struggle.
1: Macedonia vs Persia in the battle of Issus
The Persians outnumber the enemy by a large margin. 40.850 vs 600.000
2: Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb vs Persia
Battle of Firaz: 15.000 vs 150.000
Battle of Nahāvand: 30.000 120.000
At this point in time it was a norm to see a larger Iranian forces to fall into shock defeats where the odds was heavily in their favor.
3: Mirwais Hotak vs Safavid dynasty
This one is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not that 300 movie which was fake but this one was real and authentic event that took place. A tiny tribe from Kandahar conquered the whole of Iran and this happened just a little less then 300 years ago in the 17th century.
The safavid dysnasty controlled western part of Afghanistan and whole of Iran but what happened is that they arrested a youth called Mirwais Hotak and later he and his tribe revolted and this tiny harmless revolt led by 30.000 Kandahar tribesmen destroyed the entire safavid dynasty and conquered the Whole of Iran and Afghanistan. This is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not even Sun tzu's campaign is equal or close to it.
Once Kandahar fell to Hotak the Safavid in desparation kept sending reinforcement to recapture it quickly but everything send was destroyed by Mirwais Hotak and his small outnumbered tribesmen who eventually had so much success that they decided to march into Iran and capture the capital and Isfahan.
The odds was like 1000000:1
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Aside from all that what is the real cause of this bizarre events and defeats?
the answer is moral? The people are kept against their will in Iran and they never tend to be true to their roots. example when ever they leave Iran most Iranians leave Islam and denounce their citizenship. The Iranians have historically been good at adminstration and just basically traders and war has not been for them and achieved much of their success thru adminstration and slave forces.
They are not true to what they stand for so there is always lack of motivation to fall back on when the going gets tough.
In today's modern Iran the same issues are there. The people just want someone to cause regime change whether it comes from inside or outside and they seek economical gains rather then being in line with the Mullah regime as you saw recent demonstrations against the regime due to economical crisis.
In all areas Iran is a paper-tiger and much smaller neighbouring countries can upset them at any given time.
If you think militarily and equipment wise even smaller neighbouring nations such as UAE can upset them by claiming air-dominance while being better equipped overall and just being ruthless by destroying big cities and infrastructure could upset and de-moralize them.
THAAD and other forms of anti-missiles will limit them while they will definitely lose the air-dominance. So they will have to resort to manpads and anti-tanks because they will definitely lose firepower advantage. The key for them will be defensive wall and that can only work if the attacking country is not aggressive because if they are then they can level much of the cities to the ground and try to do as much as possible damage.
Israel can overcome Iran in a 1v1 type of war without any asistance
In 3 occasions biggest military upsets in human history happened in Iran and now I want to explain why this happened and why this will most likely happen again in any form of future military struggle.
1: Macedonia vs Persia in the battle of Issus
The Persians outnumber the enemy by a large margin. 40.850 vs 600.000
2: Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb vs Persia
Battle of Firaz: 15.000 vs 150.000
Battle of Nahāvand: 30.000 120.000
At this point in time it was a norm to see a larger Iranian forces to fall into shock defeats where the odds was heavily in their favor.
3: Mirwais Hotak vs Safavid dynasty
This one is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not that 300 movie which was fake but this one was real and authentic event that took place. A tiny tribe from Kandahar conquered the whole of Iran and this happened just a little less then 300 years ago in the 17th century.
The safavid dysnasty controlled western part of Afghanistan and whole of Iran but what happened is that they arrested a youth called Mirwais Hotak and later he and his tribe revolted and this tiny harmless revolt led by 30.000 Kandahar tribesmen destroyed the entire safavid dynasty and conquered the Whole of Iran and Afghanistan. This is probably the biggest military upset in human history and not even Sun tzu's campaign is equal or close to it.
Once Kandahar fell to Hotak the Safavid in desparation kept sending reinforcement to recapture it quickly but everything send was destroyed by Mirwais Hotak and his small outnumbered tribesmen who eventually had so much success that they decided to march into Iran and capture the capital and Isfahan.
The odds was like 1000000:1
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Aside from all that what is the real cause of this bizarre events and defeats?
the answer is moral? The people are kept against their will in Iran and they never tend to be true to their roots. example when ever they leave Iran most Iranians leave Islam and denounce their citizenship. The Iranians have historically been good at adminstration and just basically traders and war has not been for them and achieved much of their success thru adminstration and slave forces.
They are not true to what they stand for so there is always lack of motivation to fall back on when the going gets tough.
In today's modern Iran the same issues are there. The people just want someone to cause regime change whether it comes from inside or outside and they seek economical gains rather then being in line with the Mullah regime as you saw recent demonstrations against the regime due to economical crisis.
In all areas Iran is a paper-tiger and much smaller neighbouring countries can upset them at any given time.
If you think militarily and equipment wise even smaller neighbouring nations such as UAE can upset them by claiming air-dominance while being better equipped overall and just being ruthless by destroying big cities and infrastructure could upset and de-moralize them.
THAAD and other forms of anti-missiles will limit them while they will definitely lose the air-dominance. So they will have to resort to manpads and anti-tanks because they will definitely lose firepower advantage. The key for them will be defensive wall and that can only work if the attacking country is not aggressive because if they are then they can level much of the cities to the ground and try to do as much as possible damage.
Israel can overcome Iran in a 1v1 type of war without any asistance
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