... country’s stabilization and political reconciliation is how Syrian armed forces are going to be reformed and whether Damascus will choose the right direction in dealing with re-establishing its military.
This article analyzes the evolution of the Syrian Arab Army during the Syrian civil war, reasons behind it, main issues it faces, and alternative development.
Before the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, the total number of the SAA was
estimated
at about 325,000 men, of which 220,000 were ground ...
... Russia–Turkey agreement made it possible to wrap up the active operation in Idlib and focus forces on East Ghouta), all the efforts of the elite units of the 4th Armoured Division, as well as the Syrian Republican Guard and other regular units of the Syrian Arab Army, to repel opposition forces in East Ghouta’s Jobar and Ayn Tarma ended with the withdrawal of government-sponsored troops after significant losses. The operation in Harasta ended with the encirclement of a Republican Guard battalion ...
Syria’s military and security forces play a key institutional role, which has kept the country from total collapse during the last six years of war
The role of the military and security services has been crucial to the stability of regimes in the Middle East for the last seven decades. Militarization of the ruling elites in the region was inherent in these societies as the wave of anti-colonial revolutions initiated by army officers in the late 1940s and 1950s brought them to power. Back then,...
... of the war were manning the SAA, the absence of mobile forces and light infantry capable of quickly plugging in holes in the event of a threat arising and carrying out military operations in urban conditions and in areas with difficult terrain.
The Syrian Arab Army
Ever since civil war broke out in Syria, the Bashar al-Assad regime has carried out measures to adapt the armed units that were loyal to him to the conditions of the conflict within the country, a conflict for which they were wholly unprepared....
