True but the types of hardware they are getting, especially from the Russians are increasingly geared towards extreme high end conflict. Rather than the mobile low intensity combats expected from such situations.
If we take the "state to state" level, Algeria is facing Morocco in the matter of "West Sahara Arabic Republic", a region Morocco claims but Algeria recognize as independent state. Algeria is a "socialist" secular state at odd with its domestic Islamist rebels whose patrons you may know. Think about Algeria as another Syria or Iraq but less involved in regional conflict, but it has to be well prepared.
So it will be 4 by 2021 or 2 by 2021 Type054A?
