Recently, the clouds of war have been shrouded in Persian Gulf . It is said that Iran raised a red battle flag symbolizing revenge, and a war seems inevitable.
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As an outsider, what Longmajun is most concerned about is how powerful the Iranian army is? Can we fight against the US military back and forth? Although the United States and Iran have not directly fought on a large scale, the United States and Iran fought two Gulf Wars with Iraq and , and Iraq and Iran fought another ten years of Iran-Iraq War. As a historical editor, Longma Jun will review the Iran-Iraq War with all readers and indirectly predict the prospects of the US-Iraq War.
Iran-Iran war is a war between Iraq and Iran to fight for sovereignty of the Arab River at the border, and it fought for eight years.
First look at the comparison of troops before the war between the two sides. In Iraq, the total force is about 220,000, including 28,000 air force; Iran's total force is about 330,000, including 70,000 air force, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards 90,000. Iran clearly has the advantage.
If you look at the potential of war, Iran has an absolute advantage. Before the Iraq War, Iraq had a population of more than 13 million and Iran had a population of more than 38 million, nearly three times that of Iraq.
Finally, let’s look at the comparison of weapons between the two sides. Iraq has more than 2,700 Soviet tanks, ships, 243 about ships, and about 400 aircraft; Iran has more than 1,700 American and British tanks, 80 ships, and more than 500 aircraft. Iranian Army weapons are at a disadvantage, but they have an advantage in quality, with little difference, while the Air Force is slightly better. Overall, there is not much difference in the strength of weapons between the two sides.
According to the theory of the conventional wisdom, Iran has the advantage in standing military strength and has huge advantages in war potential. After entering the wartime system in full, it is not difficult to win with an absolute quantity advantage. However, the development of war was not the case. For most of the time in 2008, the two sides repeatedly tug-of-war in the border areas, and were regarded by military strategists as a low-level modernization war. Although Iraq achieved a series of victories in the late stage of the war, which led to the defeat of the Iranian army, it was unable to completely suppress the Iranian government and finally put a standstill with the United Nations. Two years later, Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the Gulf crisis broke out, and Iraq had to withdraw its troops from Iranian territory.
This is obviously a war of losing both sides. So which army in Iraq or Iran is stronger in combat? We may be able to see the number of casualties.
During the war, Iraqi army died of 180,000 people, injured 250,000 people, with a total casualties of 430,000 people; 350,000 people died of 700,000 people, with a total casualties of 1.05 million people. Iran has more than twice the number of casualties than Iraq.
From this we roughly concluded that the combat effectiveness of the Iranian army seems to be not as good as Iraq before the First Gulf War. As for the performance of the Iraqi army in the First Gulf War, readers are experts, so I won’t say more.
Of course, the above is just a paper talk. After decades of blockade, I believe that the Iranian army will be braver and stronger as it falls, and will definitely not let down the reputation of " Middle East Tiger". Since the religious flag of revenge has been raised, they who believe in pious will never break their promises. Longmajun sat firmly in front of the computer with all readers and watched the storm of the Bay with a smile.
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