| Israel is in a class by itself in the mideast. It has proven the ability to successfully withstand the combined might of all its neighbors, repeatedly.
Part of that is because Israel's military is "western" oriented. Arab militaries tend more toward the old soviet model which minimizes such intangibles as initiative and personal drive/self motivation and maximizes such constraints as promoting party loyalty over ability and requiring inflexible adherence to orders on the micro manage level of detail.
In straight up military terms, no arab nation is able to field anything that could match a western military, regardless of potential numbers disparity favoring the arab nation. The only possible exception would be the Turks. Man for man, the Turk can produce good reliable fighters. The main problem for the Turk military is that it hasn't been tested as a military in large operations against another nation in living memory. That can tend to create areas of fragility in a military structure.
As a standard issue military, what the Iraqi had is about as good as you will see from most of the arab world. The same issues that made it easy to destroy will be common practice in other arab armies.
There is an area where both Iran and Syria have power though and that is in the covert/terror war models. Both Syria and Iran have large, semi independent, well funded and highly organized quazi military organizations already pre deployed to target areas of strategic interest.
No arab nation nor any coalition, alliance or combination of arab nations will be able to produce a standing military able to successfully operate against a western expeditionary force, regardless of population base, economy or technology. This may change in the future, but that's how it is now. |