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Good point, but it was their neck of the woods. The Battle of Talas somewhere around that part of Kazakhstan. Whoops! I didn't do my research there at all. Formidable warriors under Arab control, but not quite Arabs themselves. They are pretty much the cavalry version of Janissaries. Edit...

Having read into a little bit of Arab history, it's rather sad to realise what a force of martial nature the Arab peoples were once. These guys effectively brought the Classical Age to an end, smashed the empires of Rome and Persia, brought Christendom to its knees, and yeeted China out of the...

Now I know Arab armies are infamous for producing very poor soldiers (which isn't entirely the Arab soldiery's fault, it's just that their leaders are paranoid imbeciles who keep crippling their militaries), but as I understand it there are exceptions. Namely, the Jordanian Military is meant to...