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Looking at the sieges of Constantinople the main weakness for the Arabs seemed to be that they focused too much on capturing the city. Attempt to do so weakened their forces in long, drawn out sieges and allowed for Byzantine forces to rally in other parts of the Empire or call in the Bulgars to save the day.

Rather then focus on capturing the city if the Arabs had instead focused on other parts of the empire they could have slowly tied a noose around the city rather then fail to cut it off with a single strike. Understandably the city is a fabled prize, but if someone in charge had perhaps focused on long term plans...
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