The Level of the FSA operations does not need many people to be fought back. Their skill, awareness and general ability to fight relies on initiative. Once the initial blow fades they seem far less able to do damage or effectively fight back. Even in close quarters. IE that force can be taken down by a relatively small force with enough firepower. The issue however is not what the SA has, but how the SA can be sure of its successes.
What is however more concerning is that mortar teams are not being employed to the extent they were in Libya. That is a gap, that plays in FSA´s hands.
This "filtered residue" might be very loyal and more professional but lacks numbers.Originally Posted by StateMachine
Such a force will be worn down in what has essentially become a war of attrition and won't be able to exert the regime's dominance in all of Syria's territory.
Unless *independent auxiliaries* are brought in with a vaster array of knowledge tactics and will to fight. A way of levelling the field of play.
Facts the way you see it? That is opinion, not facts. Somebody told you before, preface your statements with IMO, or even better, IMHO.
You thinking Mercenaries and Foreign Volunteers?
I am thinking Pasdaran.
I don't know, their loyalty is the Iranian Mullahs and Iran's Islamic system, not to Assad or his somewhat secular governance.
Nothing money can change already hezbollah is selling the weapons that iran gaves hims to the Sunni's lol
*You deal with the dog, when you need a guardian, and you deal with the snake when you need an assasin*.
Omar Khayam.
Well that remains to be seen. What we see now is the SA showing a fighting method that can defeat the rebels in a head on collision.
And of course winning has an effect of swelling your numbers as everyone wants to be on the winning side at the end. The rebels may be the ones with a manpower problem shortly.
The rebels left Salaheddine and government forces have moved in.
State media reports that the army has killed 70 rebels in the countryside.
since the FSA has over a 100 000 martyrs ready to give their lives for the glorious revolution, those 70 won't matter
Iran: Abrupt Assad fall would be 'catastrophic'
By REUTER$
08/09/2012 14:35
Iranian FM: Syrian society would be smashed to pieces if Assad falls; analysts: Cracks in regime taking Iran by surprise.
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Nations with "a correct and realistic position" would attend a meeting on Thursday in Tehran to discuss the conflict, a senior Iranian diplomat said this week, indicating that no nation that backs the opposition and calls for Assad to leave power would be present.
Russia - which along with Iran has strongly supported Assad since the crisis erupted 17 months ago - has said it will attend the meeting at ambassadorial level but it was unclear which other key players would be present.
Iranian media has reported that China would also be present, along with at least 15 others, including Iraq, Algeria, Tajikistan, Venezuela, Pakistan, India and several members of the Arab League.
In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi warned that the fall of Assad would lead to further unrest.
"Syrian society is a beautiful mosaic of ethnicities, faiths and cultures, and it will be smashed to pieces should President Bashar Assad abruptly fall," it read.
While Salehi said Iran sought a solution that was in "everyone's interest," Western diplomats have dismissed the conference as an attempt to divert attention away from bloody events on the ground and to preserve the rule of Assad.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=280669
Good, the Syrian Army needs to take the gloves off and start being calculated. They need to divide the targets into grids, surround those grids and bomb the b'jesus out them before sending in armor and infantry from all directions as to not allow any escape. They need to some spy drones from Iran, to pin point the rebels, communication monitoring gear, night vision, and some air fuel bombs.
So far from all the vids and pictures I have yet to see the Syrian Army use their full arsenal.
oh god!! WTF!!
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