Egyptian Army can cure AIDS, Hepatitis C

[The Brain]

  Good fucking job.

[Savonarola]

I see the Egyptian army is as good at medicine as it is at warfare. Is there nothing it cannot do? 

I was at the Egyptian Army Museum in the Cairo Citadel. There I learned the Egyptian Army won the war in 1973 and El Alamein.

The Museum had a thorough coverage of the entire history of they Egyptian armed forces since the Islamic conquest, with the exception of 5 June to 10 June 1967, during which NOTHING HAPPENED!!

I went to that museum too, back in the glorious days of Mubarak.  I wondered if it changed during the rule by the Muslim Brotherhood (probably not, or at least not for the better.)

When I was in the citadel a pair of young girls (they were probably about twelve) came up to me.  The first one practiced her English; the other handed me a handful of flowers, blushed scarlet and ran away (with her friend chasing after her.)  I am Savonarola, heart stealer of Arabia!

[Queequeg]

That sounds......really charming actually.

When I went to a Museum in Mardin all the kids started taking pictures of me. They'd never seen a sunburned 6'3 blonde man before.

[Neil]

If you want to get technical Germany's record might actually be the worst, but no one would accuse them of martial incompetence. 

Many do, actually.  They did lose a couple World Wars.

But they were competently fought.  Their strategies failed, but that doesn't make them 'bad at war'.

[Viking]

If you want to get technical Germany's record might actually be the worst, but no one would accuse them of martial incompetence. 

Many do, actually.  They did lose a couple World Wars.

But they were competently fought.  Their strategies failed, but that doesn't make them 'bad at war'.

Well, if you include "the ability to evaluate your chances of success in a war you start" in being good/bad at war, then, yes, they suck at war.

[Tonitrus]

Come on now, even the most skilled fighter in the world would lose when an elephant and a bunch of flailing midgets pile onto him.

[Valmy]

But they were competently fought.  Their strategies failed, but that doesn't make them 'bad at war'.

They are horrible at wars, just good at fighting.

[Neil]

But they were competently fought.  Their strategies failed, but that doesn't make them 'bad at war'.

They are horrible at wars, just good at fighting.

They won a lot of wars prior to 1914.

[The Brain]

But they were competently fought.  Their strategies failed, but that doesn't make them 'bad at war'.

They are horrible at wars, just good at fighting.

They won a lot of wars prior to 1914.

Against natives and shit?

[Eddie Teach]

And the French.

[Viking]

And the French.

That was The Kingdom of Prussia and the German Customs Union. Germany was proclaimed at Versailles once the war was already won.

[LaCroix]

That was The Kingdom of Prussia and the German Customs Union. Germany was proclaimed at Versailles once the war was already won.

german military analyzed the hell out of the franco-prussian war and correctly envisioned the future of warfare. the effectiveness of the boer tactics in the second boer war didn't surprise them - it confirmed their suspicions. so, germany was quite excellent at war. circumstances prevented them from winning

[Neil]

And the French.

That was The Kingdom of Prussia and the German Customs Union. Germany was proclaimed at Versailles once the war was already won.

It's still Germany.

[Valmy]

And the French.

That was The Kingdom of Prussia and the German Customs Union. Germany was proclaimed at Versailles once the war was already won.

It's still Germany.

Oh so we can include the centuries of the Holy Roman Empire micro-states getting steam rolled by everybody?

[Eddie Teach]

Oh so we can include the centuries of the Holy Roman Empire micro-states getting steam rolled by everybody?

As long as you keep the respective sizes of the adversaries in mind, sure. The Palatinate is a good enough proxy for how a Palatinate-sized Germany would perform. Prussia-sized Germany did rather well.