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It’s only controversial because many are too chicken to admit the obvious in our PC age: Western civilization since the time of the Greeks has consistently produced military forces which are invariably superior to non-Western forces.
This was very much not true in the period c. 500 A.D. to c. 1500 A.D...about 1,000 of the c. 2,500 years 'since the time of the Greeks.' A general characterization which is wrong 40% of the time is hardly a good one.
The MilHist literature about the sudden rise in military capacity in Europe beginning c. 1500 is vast, highly contested and not overly concerned with PC. VDH is not generally taken very seriously in that debate, for reasons that have to do with evidence and argument, not PC.
1099 was during the time frame and yet the West managed to move an army 2,000 miles and win. Nothing compares with the West’s ability to form an army and send it off to fight. Even elite non-West forces like the Jannisaries were pretty low quality.
Except that 1099 is pretty much a blip and crusader armies in the Levant will mostly lose, even against enemies as fragmented as they are. As for the Janissaries - there were 11,000 of them in 1527 and 40,000 by 1609...
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