Good Write up by Ilya Kramnik on Syria Airforce Performance
Air Force Multiplier: Courageous Warplane Pilots Helped Syria Survive
The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc) - II
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I have been saying a long time on the board that IAF must aggressively adopt Sat Comm and DIRCM for its aircraft & helos.
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increasingly the images from syria are reminding me of this
Rogue Trooper...genetic infantry (2000 AD Comic)
Rogue Trooper...genetic infantry (2000 AD Comic)
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I think whoever designed costumes for the ISIS also saw this. Their columns are designed to instill terror, no liberation/ revolution/law enforcement pretenses. Then again, I was just imagining a force from the Free Biscuit Infantry 
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J. Faraday @CTstudies 7h7 hours ago
The so called "Jaysh al Khilafah Al Elektroni " or "The Electronic Army of the Khilafah" claims to have hacked 35 sites in the #UK #infosec
The so called "Jaysh al Khilafah Al Elektroni " or "The Electronic Army of the Khilafah" claims to have hacked 35 sites in the #UK #infosec
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Elijah J. Magnier @EjmAlrai 8h8 hours ago
#ISIS (laid responsibility) two suicide attacks at al-sadr city left 70 killed and +100 wounded in #Baghdad #Iraq.
#ISIS (laid responsibility) two suicide attacks at al-sadr city left 70 killed and +100 wounded in #Baghdad #Iraq.
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The 'Nimr' Tiger @Souria4Syrians Feb 26
To sum up what NusRAT leader Joulani said in his latest statement: "We are going down & want to drag Syria with us". No you won't c**t
To sum up what NusRAT leader Joulani said in his latest statement: "We are going down & want to drag Syria with us". No you won't c**t
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Sorry, if this has been posted before.
(Perhaps this is more toward TSJ)
When US Marine Speaks the Truth .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1lwfKCgE8
(Perhaps this is more toward TSJ)
When US Marine Speaks the Truth .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1lwfKCgE8
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Austin, interesting pic. Those MI-17s also seem to also have extra-baffles for the GT exhausts. Seems like the Russians have been meticulous with protecting their air assets across spectrum, which explains why they were shown doing low level attacks, yet not getting shot down
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russians have close to a hundred craft in syria now, with an124s and those useless il76s making multiple daily runs. They should have 1000s tons of expendables stocked. Idlib is JN and turns red. Raqqah is pretty barren and would fall instantaneously whenever they have the manpower to secure north/south borders.
I suspect mines are the only possibility left for filling the void of men. Wonder how long before the turkey, jordan and iraq borders get mined.
ps: the turkish f16s no linger hold automatic superiority between ground support and top cover.
I suspect mines are the only possibility left for filling the void of men. Wonder how long before the turkey, jordan and iraq borders get mined.
ps: the turkish f16s no linger hold automatic superiority between ground support and top cover.
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JN is trying to play a smart game by 'handing over' the bordering areas with SAA to other ceasefire link rebel groups and withdrawing to its strongholds in north Idlib to shorten its perimeter , bring in more people and supplies from turkey...
but the northern edge of the al-ghab plain borders Jisr al shughur and the town is being bombed by RuAF.
Rus has also organized spares and support to return more and more of the old SyAF birds into service as a long term soln. I see occasional pics of repaired planes FOC ceremony.
but the northern edge of the al-ghab plain borders Jisr al shughur and the town is being bombed by RuAF.
Rus has also organized spares and support to return more and more of the old SyAF birds into service as a long term soln. I see occasional pics of repaired planes FOC ceremony.
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Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 6h6 hours ago
Leith Abou Fadel Retweeted Al-Masdar News
Jisr Al-Shughour is no longer a dream; it is now a reality. Syrian Army is just 15 km away from this strategic city!
Leith Abou Fadel Retweeted Al-Masdar News
Jisr Al-Shughour is no longer a dream; it is now a reality. Syrian Army is just 15 km away from this strategic city!
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If they reach 200 fighting birds of all types in the sky over what is essentially a 200x200 mile box then its game over for jeehard. they can do their occasional vbieds, but syria is not even going to be iraq level voilent. ruaf has added 100 to the mix, and syaf has got to be flying 50+ at least. actually, you dont even need a ton of observers. sit back, see who is shooting at the hot points. apply some medicine and keep moving north. they have enough uavs in the mix. not even counting the iranian uavs joining in.
the empty geograpy of syria is a huge asset. unlike iraq where population centers are taken, raqqa, idlib, jisr are small time towns that wont make incorporated cities elsewhere. And then there is just three of them. mine from west to east. and this thing will simmer down in days.
really, russia wins even more by keeping the pace slow. distracts from events closer home, pressures the sultan, and creates a positive humanitarian halo over the 500lb bombs.
short of a war, the saudis can forget it. sultan erdo is already losing his shorts.
the empty geograpy of syria is a huge asset. unlike iraq where population centers are taken, raqqa, idlib, jisr are small time towns that wont make incorporated cities elsewhere. And then there is just three of them. mine from west to east. and this thing will simmer down in days.
really, russia wins even more by keeping the pace slow. distracts from events closer home, pressures the sultan, and creates a positive humanitarian halo over the 500lb bombs.
short of a war, the saudis can forget it. sultan erdo is already losing his shorts.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 98741.html
You can see the Syrian army’s spanking new Russian T-90 tanks lined up in their new desert livery scarcely 100 miles from Isis’s Syrian “capital” of Raqqa.
There are new Russian-made trucks alongside them, and a lot of artillery and – surely Isis’s spies are supposed to see this – plenty of Syrian soldiers walking beside the perimeter wire beside Russian soldiers wearing floppy military hats against the sun, the kind they used in the old days in the summer heat of Afghanistan in the 1980s. There’s even a Russian general based at the Isriyah military base, making sure that Syrian tank crews receive the most efficient training on the T-90s.
No, Russian ground troops are not going to fight Isis. That was never the intention. The Russian air force attacks Isis from the air; the Syrians, the Iranians, the Afghan Shia Muslims from north-eastern Afghanistan, the Iraqi Shias and several hundred Pakistani Shias must attack Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra on the ground.
But the Russians have to be up in the desert to the east of the Aleppo-Hama-Homs-Damascus axis, both to train the Syrian tank crews and maintain an eastern base of forward air controllers to guide the Sukhoi bombers on to their night-time targets.
Everyone on the Syrian front lines will tell you that the Syrian air force bombs its enemies only in clear weather. When the winter clouds descend and the rain falls across northern and eastern Syria, the Russians take over.
“The Syrians are low enough to see – the Russians, when they come, you never see them,” as one constant visitor to the war fronts put it with military simplicity. No wonder senior Russian officers are now also attached to the Syrian army command in Aleppo. Vladimir Putin doesn’t do things by halves.
Yet the most important military support the Russians have given to the Syrians is not the tanks – impressive though they look – but the technology that goes with them.
Syrian officers have been shown how the new T-90 anti-missile system causes rockets to veer off course only yards from the tanks when fired directly at them. Is this the weapon that might defeat the mass rocket assaults of Isis and Nusra? Perhaps. Even more important for the Syrians, however, are the new Russian night-vision motion sensors, and the electronic surveillance-reconnaissance equipment which enabled the government army to smash through the Nusra defences in the mountainous far north-west of Syria, breaking the rebel supply lines from Turkey to Aleppo.
In an army that has lost well over 60,000 dead in almost five years of hard fighting, Syria’s officers have suddenly discovered that the new Russian technology has coincided with a rapid lowering of their casualties. This may be one reason for the steady trickle of old “Free Syrian Army” deserters back to the ranks of the government forces, depleting even further David Cameron’s 70,000-strong army of “moderate” ghost soldiers. Intriguingly, since the start of the war in 2011, a far higher percentage of Syrian police and political security personnel have gone across to Bashar al-Assad’s enemies than have soldiers in the regular army. There have been 5,000 security personnel defections out of a total force of 28,000 police.
The Russians are in a unique position among Syrian ground forces; they can train the Syrians how to use the new tanks and then watch how the T-90s perform without having to suffer any casualties themselves. Originally, there were plans to recapture Palmyra, the Roman city already partly vandalised by Isis, but the difficulties of the flat desert terrain have persuaded the Syrians that offensives in the north to cut off all rebel routes from Turkey into Syria will be far more worthwhile.
No wonder the Turks are now laying down shellfire amid Syrian forces along their mutual border. The Russians, of course, find it far easier to train men to fight in cities or mountains – environments in which they themselves have fought – than in deserts, in which no Russian military personnel have had experience since Gamal Abdel Nasser’s war in Yemen.
The offensives that retook the Shia villages of Nubl and Zahra last month were of great interest to the Russian military. For the first time, Syrian army Special Forces, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters operated together with Syrian tanks and helicopters, blasting their way through 20 miles of villages and open countryside in just eight days.
But the statistics of foreign forces fighting for the Syrian regime appear to have been grossly exaggerated in the West. There are fewer than 5,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria – this includes advisers as well as soldiers – and the other 5,000 foreign fighters include not only Afghans and Hezbollah but Pakistani Shia Muslims as well.
Despite all the boasts of Saudi Arabia that it has formed a massive, if hopelessly untrained, “coalition against terror”, it seems that the Syrians, Iranians and Hezbollah have managed to operate together in difficult, rainy terrain and win their first major joint battle. Iranian forces are now being used on the front lines for the first time, principally around Aleppo. Their first advance began in the south Aleppo countryside in November. Officially, they and the Syrians were said to be planning to open the old international highway from Aleppo to Hama, but the real plan was to break the sieges of the Shia villages of Fuah and Kafraya.
In the eastern countryside, Colonel Suheil Hassan, the “Tiger” whom some of the Syrian military regard as their Rommel, has been heading north to end an Isis siege on a Syrian airbase.
But what of the Kurds, whose advance southwards has also endangered those rebel supply routes to Aleppo? The Syrians are grateful for any Kurdish help they can get. But few in the military have forgotten the chilling events of 2013, when retreating Syrians sought refuge with Kurdish forces after the battle for the Mineq airbase. The Kurds demanded a vast tranche of weapons from the Syrian army in return for their men – soldiers for ammunition – in which millions of rounds of AK-47 and machine-gun ammunition and thousands of rounds of rocket-propelled grenades were sought in return for the release of the soldiers.
But the Kurds wanted to persuade Nusra to return Kurdish prisoners, and offered the senior Syrian officers from Mineq to Nusra in return for the captives. Nusra agreed, but once the Kurds handed over the Syrian officers, the Islamist rebels – who had lost around 300 of their own men in the Mineq battle – at once killed all the Syrian officers the Kurds had given them, shooting them in the head.
Among them was the acting Syrian commander at Mineq, Colonel Naji Abu Shaar of the Syrian army’s 17th Division. Events like these will not endear the Kurds to the Syrian army in future years.
Meanwhile, the Syrians continue to lose high-ranking officers in battle. At least six generals have been killed in combat during the Syrian war, allowing the army to proclaim that their top men lead from the front.
The commander of Syria’s Special Forces was killed in Idlib, and the commander of Syrian military intelligence in the east of the country was killed in Deir al-Zour. Major-General Mohsen Mahlouf died in battle near Palmyra. General Saleh, a close friend and colleague of Colonel “Tiger” Hassan, took on the suicide bombers of al-Qaeda in the Sheikh Najjar Industrial City outside Aleppo a year ago.
He told me that suicide bombers killed 23 of his men in one vast explosion there. I met him afterwards, and thought at the time that he had adopted a blithe – almost foolhardy – disregard of death. Just a month ago, he drove over an IED bomb which blew off the lower half of his right leg. These are hard men, many of whom trained in a Syrian military college whose front gate legend reads: “Welcome to the school of heroism, where the gods of war are made.” Chilling stuff.
You can see the Syrian army’s spanking new Russian T-90 tanks lined up in their new desert livery scarcely 100 miles from Isis’s Syrian “capital” of Raqqa.
There are new Russian-made trucks alongside them, and a lot of artillery and – surely Isis’s spies are supposed to see this – plenty of Syrian soldiers walking beside the perimeter wire beside Russian soldiers wearing floppy military hats against the sun, the kind they used in the old days in the summer heat of Afghanistan in the 1980s. There’s even a Russian general based at the Isriyah military base, making sure that Syrian tank crews receive the most efficient training on the T-90s.
No, Russian ground troops are not going to fight Isis. That was never the intention. The Russian air force attacks Isis from the air; the Syrians, the Iranians, the Afghan Shia Muslims from north-eastern Afghanistan, the Iraqi Shias and several hundred Pakistani Shias must attack Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra on the ground.
But the Russians have to be up in the desert to the east of the Aleppo-Hama-Homs-Damascus axis, both to train the Syrian tank crews and maintain an eastern base of forward air controllers to guide the Sukhoi bombers on to their night-time targets.
Everyone on the Syrian front lines will tell you that the Syrian air force bombs its enemies only in clear weather. When the winter clouds descend and the rain falls across northern and eastern Syria, the Russians take over.
“The Syrians are low enough to see – the Russians, when they come, you never see them,” as one constant visitor to the war fronts put it with military simplicity. No wonder senior Russian officers are now also attached to the Syrian army command in Aleppo. Vladimir Putin doesn’t do things by halves.
Yet the most important military support the Russians have given to the Syrians is not the tanks – impressive though they look – but the technology that goes with them.
Syrian officers have been shown how the new T-90 anti-missile system causes rockets to veer off course only yards from the tanks when fired directly at them. Is this the weapon that might defeat the mass rocket assaults of Isis and Nusra? Perhaps. Even more important for the Syrians, however, are the new Russian night-vision motion sensors, and the electronic surveillance-reconnaissance equipment which enabled the government army to smash through the Nusra defences in the mountainous far north-west of Syria, breaking the rebel supply lines from Turkey to Aleppo.
In an army that has lost well over 60,000 dead in almost five years of hard fighting, Syria’s officers have suddenly discovered that the new Russian technology has coincided with a rapid lowering of their casualties. This may be one reason for the steady trickle of old “Free Syrian Army” deserters back to the ranks of the government forces, depleting even further David Cameron’s 70,000-strong army of “moderate” ghost soldiers. Intriguingly, since the start of the war in 2011, a far higher percentage of Syrian police and political security personnel have gone across to Bashar al-Assad’s enemies than have soldiers in the regular army. There have been 5,000 security personnel defections out of a total force of 28,000 police.
The Russians are in a unique position among Syrian ground forces; they can train the Syrians how to use the new tanks and then watch how the T-90s perform without having to suffer any casualties themselves. Originally, there were plans to recapture Palmyra, the Roman city already partly vandalised by Isis, but the difficulties of the flat desert terrain have persuaded the Syrians that offensives in the north to cut off all rebel routes from Turkey into Syria will be far more worthwhile.
No wonder the Turks are now laying down shellfire amid Syrian forces along their mutual border. The Russians, of course, find it far easier to train men to fight in cities or mountains – environments in which they themselves have fought – than in deserts, in which no Russian military personnel have had experience since Gamal Abdel Nasser’s war in Yemen.
The offensives that retook the Shia villages of Nubl and Zahra last month were of great interest to the Russian military. For the first time, Syrian army Special Forces, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters operated together with Syrian tanks and helicopters, blasting their way through 20 miles of villages and open countryside in just eight days.
But the statistics of foreign forces fighting for the Syrian regime appear to have been grossly exaggerated in the West. There are fewer than 5,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria – this includes advisers as well as soldiers – and the other 5,000 foreign fighters include not only Afghans and Hezbollah but Pakistani Shia Muslims as well.
Despite all the boasts of Saudi Arabia that it has formed a massive, if hopelessly untrained, “coalition against terror”, it seems that the Syrians, Iranians and Hezbollah have managed to operate together in difficult, rainy terrain and win their first major joint battle. Iranian forces are now being used on the front lines for the first time, principally around Aleppo. Their first advance began in the south Aleppo countryside in November. Officially, they and the Syrians were said to be planning to open the old international highway from Aleppo to Hama, but the real plan was to break the sieges of the Shia villages of Fuah and Kafraya.
In the eastern countryside, Colonel Suheil Hassan, the “Tiger” whom some of the Syrian military regard as their Rommel, has been heading north to end an Isis siege on a Syrian airbase.
But what of the Kurds, whose advance southwards has also endangered those rebel supply routes to Aleppo? The Syrians are grateful for any Kurdish help they can get. But few in the military have forgotten the chilling events of 2013, when retreating Syrians sought refuge with Kurdish forces after the battle for the Mineq airbase. The Kurds demanded a vast tranche of weapons from the Syrian army in return for their men – soldiers for ammunition – in which millions of rounds of AK-47 and machine-gun ammunition and thousands of rounds of rocket-propelled grenades were sought in return for the release of the soldiers.
But the Kurds wanted to persuade Nusra to return Kurdish prisoners, and offered the senior Syrian officers from Mineq to Nusra in return for the captives. Nusra agreed, but once the Kurds handed over the Syrian officers, the Islamist rebels – who had lost around 300 of their own men in the Mineq battle – at once killed all the Syrian officers the Kurds had given them, shooting them in the head.
Among them was the acting Syrian commander at Mineq, Colonel Naji Abu Shaar of the Syrian army’s 17th Division. Events like these will not endear the Kurds to the Syrian army in future years.
Meanwhile, the Syrians continue to lose high-ranking officers in battle. At least six generals have been killed in combat during the Syrian war, allowing the army to proclaim that their top men lead from the front.
The commander of Syria’s Special Forces was killed in Idlib, and the commander of Syrian military intelligence in the east of the country was killed in Deir al-Zour. Major-General Mohsen Mahlouf died in battle near Palmyra. General Saleh, a close friend and colleague of Colonel “Tiger” Hassan, took on the suicide bombers of al-Qaeda in the Sheikh Najjar Industrial City outside Aleppo a year ago.
He told me that suicide bombers killed 23 of his men in one vast explosion there. I met him afterwards, and thought at the time that he had adopted a blithe – almost foolhardy – disregard of death. Just a month ago, he drove over an IED bomb which blew off the lower half of his right leg. These are hard men, many of whom trained in a Syrian military college whose front gate legend reads: “Welcome to the school of heroism, where the gods of war are made.” Chilling stuff.
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al masdar news
ISIS’ large-scale offensive in southeast Aleppo and northeast Hama forced the Syrian Army to concentrate a large number of soldiers to these fronts in order reopen the supply route. Unfortunately by doing this, they had to abandon a number of posts near the strategic village of Zakiyah in the Al-Raqqa Governorate’s southwestern countryside. This time around; it is ISIS that will need an influx of fighters to help them fight off the government forces that are likely to make another major push into the Al-Raqqa countryside. Making matters worse for ISIS, their offensive illuminated the need for the Syrian Armed Forces to build a large buffer-zone around this desert region that connects the provinces of Aleppo, Al-Raqqa, and Hama. Sure, their strongholds of Al-Bab and Deir Hafer will get a much needed break from the advancing Tiger Forces; however, ISIS will now have to strengthen their defenses around the Tabaqa Military Airport. ISIS has been relatively unchallenged in the Tabaqa countryside since they captured this military installation in August of 2014; but, in defense of the Syrian Army, they have never made any legitimate push to liberate the area up until recently.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/sy ... ply-route/ | Al-Masdar News
ISIS’ large-scale offensive in southeast Aleppo and northeast Hama forced the Syrian Army to concentrate a large number of soldiers to these fronts in order reopen the supply route. Unfortunately by doing this, they had to abandon a number of posts near the strategic village of Zakiyah in the Al-Raqqa Governorate’s southwestern countryside. This time around; it is ISIS that will need an influx of fighters to help them fight off the government forces that are likely to make another major push into the Al-Raqqa countryside. Making matters worse for ISIS, their offensive illuminated the need for the Syrian Armed Forces to build a large buffer-zone around this desert region that connects the provinces of Aleppo, Al-Raqqa, and Hama. Sure, their strongholds of Al-Bab and Deir Hafer will get a much needed break from the advancing Tiger Forces; however, ISIS will now have to strengthen their defenses around the Tabaqa Military Airport. ISIS has been relatively unchallenged in the Tabaqa countryside since they captured this military installation in August of 2014; but, in defense of the Syrian Army, they have never made any legitimate push to liberate the area up until recently.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/sy ... ply-route/ | Al-Masdar News
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Robert F. Kennedy weighs in on Syria
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... z41XYfbLST
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... z41XYfbLST
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America’s unsavory record of violent interventions in Syria—little-known to the American people yet well-known to Syrians—sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic jihadism that now complicates any effective response by our government to address the challenge of ISIL. So long as the American public and policymakers are unaware of this past, further interventions are likely only to compound the crisis. Secretary of State John Kerry this week announced a “provisional” ceasefire in Syria. But since U.S. leverage and prestige within Syria is minimal—and the ceasefire doesn’t include key combatants such as Islamic State and al Nusra--it’s bound to be a shaky truce at best. Similarly President Obama’s stepped-up military intervention in Libya—U.S. airstrikes targeted an Islamic State training camp last week—is likely to strengthen rather than weaken the radicals. As the New York Times reported in a December 8, 2015, front-page story, Islamic State political leaders and strategic planners are working to provoke an American military intervention. They know from experience this will flood their ranks with volunteer fighters, drown the voices of moderation and unify the Islamic world against America.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... z41QzmiUhP
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this map tries to predict the region after IS and JN are destroyed
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looks like western plan is to resurrect the FSA in the Euphrates valley (IS took over from them) and hand things over to them progressively as the IS is beaten.
this is likely to be highly unpopular with everyone else incl the SDF, YPG, SAA and Russia.
this is likely to be highly unpopular with everyone else incl the SDF, YPG, SAA and Russia.
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This is contd of the discussion on previous thread about role of numbers in a war.. Bit OT, but never the less.
One of the most interesting outcome of WW2 was that the best of Europe (Germany) was smashed by the Soviets( Part Europe, Part Asia). The Soviets could have captured Western Europe and there was nothing to stop the Red Army from doing so. Imagine the current world order if Stalin wanted Paris!
WW2 made the Europeans reliase that advantage of technology is not going to save them from countries with manpower advantage, from doing to them what they did to natives in Americas & Australia & their colonies..
The Red Army truely showed the world what is "Art of War" at strat level. Sustain( includes men & material) a fighting force of X, no matter how much your enemy kills you. All these "Combined Arms", "Shock & Awe" are tactical ideas.
The Europeans will be always be involved( like NATO) against nations with population advantage & having decent tech base, specially in Asia. There will always be "in the national interest" wars in far away lands, because they cannot sustain the same at home. Hence the itch to get involved from Middle East to Africa to Far East Asia.
Lesson for India: For conventional deterrent, we should promise the same as the Soviets did. A Civilisation level conflict to our adversary and promise to sustain it.
One of the most interesting outcome of WW2 was that the best of Europe (Germany) was smashed by the Soviets( Part Europe, Part Asia). The Soviets could have captured Western Europe and there was nothing to stop the Red Army from doing so. Imagine the current world order if Stalin wanted Paris!
WW2 made the Europeans reliase that advantage of technology is not going to save them from countries with manpower advantage, from doing to them what they did to natives in Americas & Australia & their colonies..
The Red Army truely showed the world what is "Art of War" at strat level. Sustain( includes men & material) a fighting force of X, no matter how much your enemy kills you. All these "Combined Arms", "Shock & Awe" are tactical ideas.
The Europeans will be always be involved( like NATO) against nations with population advantage & having decent tech base, specially in Asia. There will always be "in the national interest" wars in far away lands, because they cannot sustain the same at home. Hence the itch to get involved from Middle East to Africa to Far East Asia.
Lesson for India: For conventional deterrent, we should promise the same as the Soviets did. A Civilisation level conflict to our adversary and promise to sustain it.
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kati I have been saying for a while that what ex US marine kenneth o'keefe is saying in his u tube videos is the truth but of course he is almost unknown in America. But the truth is slowly coming out with guys like Alex Jones and christopher greene. The rise of donald trump basically explains the same thing .The public through the internet has begun to see the truth.
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sorry, no comprendo... the donald is the biggest travesty of the truth going
some of the public are lapping up his soundbites of idiocy
any moment now, sane americans will vomit all over him
some of the public are lapping up his soundbites of idiocy
any moment now, sane americans will vomit all over him
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Talk to me november 2016. talk about sane american.
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a expose on bellingcat the UK open src analysis site and its principal elliott higgins who has been producing reports trying to link russia to every manner of bad stuff going on,
http://thetruthspeaker.co/2016/02/28/el ... d-to-know/
http://thetruthspeaker.co/2016/02/28/el ... d-to-know/
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The rise of donald trump has nothing to do with the truth. If truth were his wife, trump would turn gay rather than sleep with her.
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deejay,deejay wrote:Robert F. Kennedy weighs in on Syria
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... z41XYfbLST
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America’s unsavory record of violent interventions in Syria—little-known to the American people yet well-known to Syrians—sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic jihadism that now complicates any effective response by our government to address the challenge of ISIL. So long as the American public and policymakers are unaware of this past, further interventions are likely only to compound the crisis. Secretary of State John Kerry this week announced a “provisional” ceasefire in Syria. But since U.S. leverage and prestige within Syria is minimal—and the ceasefire doesn’t include key combatants such as Islamic State and al Nusra--it’s bound to be a shaky truce at best. Similarly President Obama’s stepped-up military intervention in Libya—U.S. airstrikes targeted an Islamic State training camp last week—is likely to strengthen rather than weaken the radicals. As the New York Times reported in a December 8, 2015, front-page story, Islamic State political leaders and strategic planners are working to provoke an American military intervention. They know from experience this will flood their ranks with volunteer fighters, drown the voices of moderation and unify the Islamic world against America.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... z41QzmiUhP
strange prescription, "they are strong" but "if you kill them they will be stronger"? This whole corruption by slave yazidi women approach hasnt yielded the moderate enlightenment proposed either. Stop buying the damn oil and gas from qatar, saudi, uae. there. problem solved overnight. block the hermuz. close off the suez. oil isnt the fuel it once was, and amrika and russia produce more than necessary.
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http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9046.htm
Russian Sociologist Denis Sokolov: Chechen President Kadyrov Has Placed Himself In The Best Position For A Possible War Of 'All Against All' In Russia
Russian Sociologist Denis Sokolov: Chechen President Kadyrov Has Placed Himself In The Best Position For A Possible War Of 'All Against All' In Russia
The Events In Syria Are 'A War Of Light Against Darkness' Waged By The Russian Army And Kadyrov
"Kadyrov did not just remain, he is the one who shapes [Russia's] political agenda. [Recently] he announced that the Chechen Special Forces are fighting on Syrian soil and have been fighting there since before ISIS even emerged there,[13] that is, before Putin sent the bombers to Syria. The fight against terrorism is apparently meant to make up for [Kadyrov's] other sins. But the leader of Chechnya, more than anyone else, knows that the boundary between terrorism and fighting against it is only theoretical. He felt free to organize a protest against the comic strips of [the French magazine] Charlie Hebdo[14] – almost demonstrating his solidarity with the murderers – and then immediately after the [November 13, 2015] terrorist attacks in Paris, he called on the whole world to join together in the fight against ISIS.[15]"The fact that in 2015 many fighters from the North Caucasus in Syria joined ISIS, and the Caucasus Emirate's public pledge of allegiance to [ISIS leader] Al-Baghdadi, played into the hands of Moscow and Grozny by supporting the myth that the Russian security services, the [Russian] army and Kadyrov are waging a war of 'the forces light against the forces of darkness'..."
Thanks to his public activity, Kadyrov has become the face of the Russian political class whose institutional foundation is an alliance between the intelligence [agencies] and the criminal organizations that emerged in the 1990s in St. Petersburg...Under the guise of the war on terror, the law-enforcement system in the North Caucasus –and now across the country – is fighting political rivals and ideological dissidence...
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Gender Equality Coming To ISIS
Woman appointed by IS leader to head new battalion in Syria
Woman appointed by IS leader to head new battalion in Syria
So, after "fulfilling" their Islamic duties as "sex slaves" in the war zones, some of them they are now "promoted" to"moral police":mrgreen:A woman has been appointed by the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to lead a new all-female battalion in Syria,the al-Arabiya news site quoted an activist as saying on Sunday.
Nada al-Qahtani who joined the group after leaving Saudi Arabia in 2013 is said to have lead the all-female modesty police, al-Khansaa Brigade in the group's de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. Another leader of the group is believed to be Britain Aqsa Mahmood who disappeared from her home in Glasgow in November 2014, and flew to Syria to marry an IS fighter.
According to al-Arabiya, al-Qahtani, who along with Mahmood led an estimated 800 girls in the brigade will now supposedly lead a new branch of the brigade in the Syrian province of Hasakeh after meeting with Baghdadi twice. (was the Saudi Moral Police present? was she accompanied by a male guardian as per Sharia Law? - just wondering)
The female fighter “is now present in Hasakah… and she plays a prominent role on the level of communicating with foreign fighters,” al-Arabiya quoted the activist as saying.
While the all-female IS battalion led by al-Qahtani is a new step for the group, it is not the be the first all-female fighting in Syria. In December, i24news reported on an all-female Christian female militia battling IS in Hasakeh who following in the footsteps of Syria's other main female force battling the jihadists -- the women of the YPJ, the female counterpart to the Kurdish People's Protection Units or YPG.
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Meanwhile, the UQ papers say that there are thousands of Paki Shia fighting on the guvrmand side.
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war-nerd has a very interesting take on saudi foreign policy in ME. he thinks it is a genius level plan.
https://pando.com/2013/12/19/the-war-ne ... -blowback/
https://pando.com/2013/12/19/the-war-ne ... -blowback/
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Great read. Guy should be an Honorary Member of UBCN. But he's right, u know..
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Over 150,000 Syrian babies born in Turkey
GENEVA (Web Desk) – More than 150,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since Syria’s crisis began, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Lufti Elvan said Monday.
The deputy PM also underscored the humanitarian burden incurred by Ankara during the conflict, Gulf News reported.
Addressing the opening session of the United Nations human rights council in Swiss city, Elvan said that Turkey was “doing its upmost to shoulder a large part of the humanitarian catastrophe” caused by more than five years of civil war in Syria.
“The number of Syrian babies born in Turkey has reached almost 152,000″, Elvan told the council, according to a copy of his prepared remarks, noting that his country also hosts more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees, more than any of Syria’s other neighbours.
Should also ask for more funding from the Head Of The Two Holy Mosques !Elvan urged the world nations, including the West to “act in line with principles of burden sharing” on the Syrian humanitarian crisis.
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Links pls? U mean there is some iota of realization? Trouble is, the end result is same regardless of facts: 1) Kash More to Pakis 2) Kash More to EJs 3) Weapons export to "Moderate Terrorists". 4) Bomb SOMEONE, ANYONE. Wake me up when there is anything different.snahata wrote: what ex US marine kenneth o'keefe is saying .. guys like Alex Jones and christopher greene. The public through the internet has begun to see the truth.
Oh, I forgot! 5) Sanctions, sanctions to support subsidies* to Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Corn, Big Banks, Big WarMalt, Big Weapons.
*To Protect Freedom and Free Enterprise, of course.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 7mYrBdrUqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... FsMQ32YtxM
Watch the whole thing UB. he has many other videos on u tube. I think this man ken o'keefe is genuine. He clearly has put his life on the line to say things which people know but scared to say so loudly in public in the so called phoney free world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... FsMQ32YtxM
Watch the whole thing UB. he has many other videos on u tube. I think this man ken o'keefe is genuine. He clearly has put his life on the line to say things which people know but scared to say so loudly in public in the so called phoney free world.
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Then he must be See Aiyyeh. Puts it out there 2 c hu agrees.
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looks like deir is a prestige issue for ISIS and hence their perpetual attacks on it.
they already control all the valuable oilfields in the countryside so the city and airbase has no treasure for them
yet they keep throwing attacks at it
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
I used to collect the names of the ISIS terrorists killed in Deir Ezzor, but it's pointless. Half of them are named "Abu Umar Al-Masri"
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
Syrian Army killed 50+ ISIS terrorists today, but another 100 will replace them tomorrow. I don't even know where they come from.
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
I have honestly never seen anything like the battle of Deir Ezzor in my life. ISIS' death toll is so high and you wouldn't even know.
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
Leith Abou Fadel Retweeted Al-Masdar News
There is no other front in Syria where ISIS respawns so quickly. They lose 100 terrorists and then replace them....
they already control all the valuable oilfields in the countryside so the city and airbase has no treasure for them
yet they keep throwing attacks at it
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
I used to collect the names of the ISIS terrorists killed in Deir Ezzor, but it's pointless. Half of them are named "Abu Umar Al-Masri"
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
Syrian Army killed 50+ ISIS terrorists today, but another 100 will replace them tomorrow. I don't even know where they come from.
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
I have honestly never seen anything like the battle of Deir Ezzor in my life. ISIS' death toll is so high and you wouldn't even know.
Leith Abou Fadel @leithfadel 3h3 hours ago
Leith Abou Fadel Retweeted Al-Masdar News
There is no other front in Syria where ISIS respawns so quickly. They lose 100 terrorists and then replace them....
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lot of saa/hez casualties in opening the khanaser road. they will show no mercy to IS in further battles, not that IS surrender too much...
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How much longer to kick ISIS out of the oil fields?
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^^ months I would imagine. the oil wells are spread all over raqqa, deir, palmyra, east homs-hama line....but I doubt the oil tanker express runs much these days. they are running operations based on hoarded cash and suitcases of dollars smuggled in from donors. and there have been pay cuts and reduction of benefits even in raqqa
IS fighter wearing a gopro gets shot dead by a ypg sniper
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/ ... 3788551168
IS fighter wearing a gopro gets shot dead by a ypg sniper
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/ ... 3788551168