Assad’s Army and Intelligence Services: Feudalization or Structurization?

... a national military structure – without the growing Shiite International. Fragmentation At present, the armed forces that Bashar al-Assad relies on continue to be an assortment of groupings, all of which depend on Damascus to varying degrees. There ... ... In other words, Syrian intelligence services would be brought up to global standards. It is also imperative to create border security forces to control Syria’s eastern frontiers first and foremost, but also the entire border, as a kind of unified system ...