The Ottoman army was the strongest in the world for over three centuries, from 1447 to 1771 AD, and then the third strongest for another century, until 1871 AD.

It's worth noting that for over a century and a half, its power equaled that of all the world's armies combined, from 1517 to 1683 AD.

The American historian Michael Oren stated, "Even in its final moments in World War I in 1917, the Ottoman army was far from defeat."

In World War I, even at its weakest, the Ottoman Caliphate was able to fight on five fronts simultaneously with an army of 2.9 million soldiers.

13,000 British soldiers surrendered to the Ottomans, described as the most humiliating surrender in British military history by the British historian James Morris.

It was not truly defeated except by internal betrayal from secular nationalist, Masonic, and Turkification parties, as well as the great Arab betrayal.