Syria under Bashir Assad (closed end 2014)

[davidbfpo]

A WaPo article on a vexed issue here, Syrian regime manpower and the title does suggest the content:

Desperate for soldiers, Assad’s government imposes harsh recruitment measures

Link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...33b_story.html

[davidbfpo]

Not by me, rather Professor Joshua Landis, a US academic and IIRC sometimes criticised here:http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/yea...ecember-2014/?

He opens with:

Syria will become increasingly fragmented in 2015. The Somalia-ization of the country is inevitable so long as the international community degrades all centers of power in Syria and the opposition fails to unite.

I found it coherent and sadly realistic.

[davidbfpo]

This thread has run since August 2012, with 81.8k views and 834 posts. It is appropriate now as 2015 looms (in the UK) that it be closed and a new thread started.

The new thread, refelcting my previous post, is called 'Syria: the next Somalia?'.