As a general rule, you can tell how good an army is and how well it will do on the battlefield by looking to see how much responsibility and authority it gives to its sergeants. And as De Atkine points out: “a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army has as much authority as a colonel in an Arab army”. The Israeli army’s sergeants are about the same as ours in terms of level of authority.
I wonder how the Indian and Pakistani armies would rate. Anyone with contacts in the military care to write about this?