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>The Arab Muslim armies that exploded outward from the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century were highly motivated and experienced through generations of tribal warfare.
But they were actually united under a common goal which is why another tribe didn't do the same thing. They were able to integrate new tribes and lead larger and larger forces over time. The reason for their success was centralization. The slow down after the massive initial "burst" over a few years was to centralize power and the massive amount of new territory not because they were incapable of going any further.
Centralization is also why many middle eastern countries fail. They are not truly nations in a proper sense just lines on a map. There is no such thing as an "Afghan" like there is an "American" in the national sense. I can take a random person from California and compare them to a random person in New York and they are largely similar, I can force them to move into each other's states and they can do so without much issue. I grab two random people from Afghanistan and they're from completely different tribes and speak different languages and they may as well be from different countries and neither of them have received a standardized education or anything like that in the western sense.

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