😅 haven't actually read it yet, someone linked to it somewhere else and it looked interesting, I didn't want to bookmark it so I remembered this place for articles that are a bit long and I'd come back to it

Searching for the author it looks like he wrote another article 13 years later:

In 1999, I wrote an article entitled “Why Arabs Lose Wars,” which has appeared a number of times in other periodicals and has had a rather long shelf life on the internet. Some considered it stereotypical, but it was derived from my many years of being with or observing Arab armies, including the civil war between the Jordanian Arab Army and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Other than the Jordanian experience, my store of knowledge comes from more than two years of daily interface with the Egyptian ground forces as an Army Attaché. I also gained insights from a number of temporary duty assignments with Gulf military establishments, including an assignment to the British-officered Trucial Oman Scouts before the emergence of the United Arab Republic.

I have combined these on-the-ground observations and experiences with over 40 years of collecting as much information as possible on the military culture and way of life of Arab militaries.

https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/journals/meria/v17i1/f_0029666_23981.pdf

Despite the sponsor of the original article looks interesting