ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
Trenches would do little to stop armoured VBIEDs, you need pre-fabricated concrete blocks/tank traps to stop or at least slow them down, and heavy weapons to punch through their hillbilly armour at sufficient range that the cook off doesn’t take you out as well.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Not all of them are armored and those that are not are even more scary. A Civilian car rolls up to a checkpoint everything seems fine they go to check them out and wave them though and it explodes. Basically a Suicide bomber on wheels.
Jura The idiot
General
... anyway Kurds call on Syrian regime to intervene in Afrin battle
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Syria doesn’t have the strength to stand up to the Turks even if they wanted to. Which is why the Turks are literally invading.
The Turkish regular army may eventually pull out, but they will leave their ‘little green men’ behind to defacto occupy the land.
It’s what they been doing from the start, only their previous effects got curb-stomped by the Russians after the Su24 shoot down.
Now that they and Russia have mended fences, annexation 2.0 is underway.
This is the harsh reality of the western-led ‘rules based world order’.
Unless you kow-tow to the western master powers, you need the raw hard military and economic power (or are protected by another major power that has such power) to resist their endless attempts to subvert your rule to be replaced with someone who would.
No one is safe, not Syria, India, Russia, China or even normally neutral or pro-western powers like Ukraine.
Step out of line like Yanukovych, and a ‘popular’ uprising could literally appear from nothing, almost always co-ordinated, led and sustained by western social media and mainstream media.
The Turkish regular army may eventually pull out, but they will leave their ‘little green men’ behind to defacto occupy the land.
It’s what they been doing from the start, only their previous effects got curb-stomped by the Russians after the Su24 shoot down.
Now that they and Russia have mended fences, annexation 2.0 is underway.
This is the harsh reality of the western-led ‘rules based world order’.
Unless you kow-tow to the western master powers, you need the raw hard military and economic power (or are protected by another major power that has such power) to resist their endless attempts to subvert your rule to be replaced with someone who would.
No one is safe, not Syria, India, Russia, China or even normally neutral or pro-western powers like Ukraine.
Step out of line like Yanukovych, and a ‘popular’ uprising could literally appear from nothing, almost always co-ordinated, led and sustained by western social media and mainstream media.
Jura The idiot
General
Tuesday at 9:44 PM
Turkish estimate of the number of Kurdish fighters: between 8k and 10k
also put some interesting operational comments which I don't translate:
... and now noticed what some Russian blogger says the Turkish Orbat is (don't quote this to say it's unconfirmed or what ever else):
- elements of the 52nd Tank Division, probably a Tank Brigade
- SF Brigade of
- a Tank Brigade, a Mechanized Brigade, and an Artillery Regiment of
- about 5k fighters of
- support units
- aviation
Turkish estimate of the number of Kurdish fighters: between 8k and 10k
also put some interesting operational comments which I don't translate:
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There is no way that many soldiers...i think FSA main infantry foces...
Turkish army does not have SF...SF(Special forces command) is only subordinate to the Turkish General Staff and they are outside the Land Forces chain of command.
Turkish army have so many commando brigade but the term 'commando' is different when it comes to the Turkish Armed Forces....the term of Commando refers to the specialised infantry or something like that but not SF.
200 commandos are heading to afrin...(from Bingol 49th commando brigade)
Turkish army does not have SF...SF(Special forces command) is only subordinate to the Turkish General Staff and they are outside the Land Forces chain of command.
Turkish army have so many commando brigade but the term 'commando' is different when it comes to the Turkish Armed Forces....the term of Commando refers to the specialised infantry or something like that but not SF.
200 commandos are heading to afrin...(from Bingol 49th commando brigade)