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[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The arabs are simply too incompetent and weak to do anything like that. The Israeli army has one thousand tanks and numbers as high as 130,000 men. They probably have about 12 active combat brigades in the field. Due to the small size and high density of the population, they can most likely mobilize all their reserves and raise the number of combat brigades to 30 within a week. The Israeli air force is the strongest in the middle east with 217 4+ and 4++ gen US made jets and 23 F-35s.

If anything Israel can take half of Jordan and Syria in a blitzkrieg if they had the stomach to take thousands of casualties.

As for the US, there are US carrier srike groups in the mediterranean and Indian ocean who could rush there within a few days. Plus the US has a large air component in Saudi Arabia which can easily strike Jordan. There's also a large air component in Cyprus from where the US and UK could assist with strikes and combat air patrol.