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Trying to make sense of Aleppo today:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37454637

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Hat tip to Crowbat for this Russian article, 'Why Russia did not succeed in Syria after one year of involvement' written by a ret'd Air Defence staff officer, Col. Mikhail Mikhailovich Hodarenok and...

Perhaps a rather dry academic article, but very timely. The author concludes:
Link:https://defenceindepth.co/2016/09/19/syrias-ceasefire-and-the-challenges-of-war-termination/

An open source examination disproving the Russian report on the strategic Castello road into Aleppo, along which IIRC aid was supposed to...

Jeremy Bowen, a veteran BBC reporter on the Syrian civil war ponders what the future holds. The title comes from this:
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37315875

How he came to...

A telling phrase in Paul Woods article in The Spectator three weeks ago; he is a BBC reporter too and has covered Syria for sometime, rarely now from within and the title & sub-title give you a...

This article:http://observer.com/2016/08/russia-hints-it-might-hide-nukes-in-syria/ struck me as odd. In part as I do not know this online Observer website, then the author is a Russian, now resident...

Shashank Joshi, of RUSI, has a commentary on the taking of Manbij:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/13/manbijs-liberation-is-a-big-step-in-the-long-war-against-isil/?

From my faraway...

An Israeli think tank paper 'The establishment of the Fateh al-Sham Front in place of the Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria: reasons and...

A commentary by Professor Scott Walker, of Birmingham (UK) University, on and as a taster here are two passages:...

From my "armchair" I think the absence of MSM reporting can be in part explained by several factors: war weariness - after five years; the lack of media access - with few exceptions; the confusion...

This new RUSI Occasional Paper (60 pgs) provides a comprehensive analysis of Iran's role in the Syrian conflict, drawing on the perspective of major regional state and non-state actors:...

I was shocked at the BBC News report yesterday that stated the helicopter was on a "humanitarian mission", but when the film clip was shown in the lead up to a two minute report on Aleppo at 10 secs...

Quite the best short article on Syria I've read for a long time. As the author writes:

A strategic overview, one that alas we rarely see here and succinct too:

Not got time to read it all? Read...

Cited in part from a Post 168 three days ago:

This man was in the UK for a college course to enable a career in commercial shipping. He was not a 'British Daeshi' nor was he 'ex-Navy'.

That...

The current Syria thread has 2.6k posts and has had 56k views:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=23774

It will be closed and this new thread will take over.This post may then not...