Smerel, there’s a lot to unpack here. Firstly, even if we were to say that the sides were drastically uneven (which they weren’t, more on that soon), the pri megadim writes that we wouldn’t have established chanukah because of the victory of the chashmonaim, because often the underdog (pardon the expression) wins – winning a war against all odds is NOT a neis, according to the pri megadim.
Again, you’re conflating yad Hashem vs nisim. Not everything that’s min hashomayim is a neis. Misyavnim, secularists, and kochi veotzem yodi people say that the CAUSE of success is strength and material factors. They deny that it is from Hashem.
I am not saying that Israel’s wars, or any wars, or anything is not from Hashem. The snowflake that hit my nose this morning was from Hashem. Nothing exists or happens without Hashem. A neis is a miracle, a suspension of natural law. It is done for tzadikim or xan be, rarely, a challenge from the yatzer hora, are we going to follow…say, the egel hazahav, or here, are we going to lavish praises on the zionist enemies of Torah and say that Hashem is “with” them and their blasphemous campaigns.
However, we don’t need the pri megadim here. By all counts, Israel had far better training, better pilots, better equipment, better weapons, and better generals. The empty wagon in that chapter brings many neutral sources that clearly say this. The arab armies were plagued by nepotism, lack of training and preparedness, aging weaponry and many other factors. Also, Israel had better motivation; arabs were secure in their land, whereas the Israelis would face extermination if they failed. Numbers alone are not the deciding factor.
Rav yisroel chaim Kaplan’s grandson, rav binyomin kaplan, tells over (you can him say it on rabbi shapiro’s podcast by googling “R. Yaakov Kamenetsky on the Myth of the Miracle of the 6-Day War rabbi shapiro podcast”) that rav yaakov kaminetzky said “vos heist nisim?” How were there nisim?
Comparing land mass the way zionists do in theit education information is very misleading. Wars aren’t won by colliding land masses together or merely by troops running at each other. Even then, the air force is what really makes a difference, and Israel had the upper hand in that department by a wide margin.
Again, neis doesn’t equal min hashomayim. Everything is min hashomayim, most things – 99.9% of things, are not nissim.