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- Although the head of the military, General Abdullah Atfeh, swore to the Minister of Defense in May 1947, that the Syrian army was " the best of all the Arab armies, the best army in the Middle East, " the brigade commanders scoffed at this ridiculous assessment and cabled the President to warn, that " the army is not worth a red cent . " [ fn ] Quwatli was fully aware of the problems in his military . " The real problem is to reform the Syrian army and to solve the problem of its leadership, " he confided to Taha al-Hashimi in September 1947 . [ fn]