The Syrian Armed Forces Seven Years into the Conflict: From a Regular Army to Volunteer Corps
... him to the conditions of the conflict within the country, a conflict for which they were wholly unprepared. In particular, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was dominated exclusively by heavy armoured and mechanized infantry divisions. There was an overabundance ... ... in conjunction with units of the 14th and 15th Special Forces Divisions, thus providing armoured support to them . Lebanese Hezbollah detachments were subsequently used as an infantry component of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division on a regular basis....
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