What is the strength of the Saudi army?

At present, Saudi Arabia has 6.5438+0.5 million troops, and the military expenditure is as high as more than 50 billion US dollars. It can be seen that the military expenditure of individual soldiers ranks among the best in the world, and the cost of supporting a soldier is high, but the military strength is not high.

1, the military has become unimportant.

Saudi Arabia's army used to have a good fighting capacity, but since the emergence of oil, since Saudi Arabia mastered this black gold and the country became rich, national construction, especially army building, has gradually lost its importance. It is precisely because Saudi Arabia has mastered oil that its national construction is very advanced. The welfare system of the whole country is of high quality, and the national welfare treatment in Saudi Arabia is very superior, and almost no one wants to emigrate.

2. High welfare benefits make soldiers more pampered.

Because of money and high welfare, the population of Saudi Arabia is the best in the world in taking care of their own lives. No one will take up arms for certain beliefs. Everything in Saudi Arabia is inseparable from the role of money, and it is the same in the army. The welfare of the Saudi army is the highest in the world. However, the combat effectiveness is often unsatisfactory, because no soldier is willing to engage in dangerous military tasks and actions.

3. Without its own military system, high-end weapons are bought.

Saudi Arabia's weapons are also the best in the world, and it does not have its own military industrial system. But Saudi Arabia is not short of money, and all advanced weapons and equipment will be purchased through money and oil. And because Saudi Arabia is rich, it can hire a large number of high-quality mercenaries, and these mercenaries are Saudi Arabia's trump card. It is also because Saudi Arabia has oil that it has become America's most important partner in the Middle East.

4. Protection of European and American countries

Saudi Arabia is a major buyer of military weapons in Europe and America. It is precisely for this reason that even if Saudi mercenaries cannot guarantee Saudi national security, these countries in Europe and America will certainly do their best to protect Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia also attaches great importance to European and American countries and signs tens of billions of dollars in military purchases every year. Since Trump took office, Saudi Arabia has directly signed hundreds of billions of dollars in military procurement and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic and investment cooperation with Trump.

However, when Saudi Arabia conducts military operations alone, its military performance is often unsatisfactory. Including the attack on Houthi armed forces, it can't run back, reducing the advanced equipment of many European and American countries. After the end of the Iraq war, Saudi Arabia sent troops with the United States, which really earned a lot and revived its military strength.

Generally speaking, Saudi Arabia's army has the best weapons in the world, but its combat effectiveness ranks at the bottom of the world.