War

The Shadow War Behind Syria’s Rebellion: Foreign Backers Jockey for Influence in Turkey

May 24, 2013

Source: Time While the diplomatic grouping known as the Friends of Syria met in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday to discuss a U.S.-Russian plan for peace talks, a low-key yet perhaps equally important gathering was being quietly held in Istanbul between Saudi officials and half of the 30 members of the Free Syrian Army’s Higher Military [...]

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Sunni and Shiite Foreign Fighters Battle for Qusayr

May 23, 2013

Source: WSJ This town on Damascus’s southern fringe, with a shimmering golden-domed shrine at its center and a heavily patrolled perimeter of berms and concrete barriers, has become the first stop for many foreign fighters entering Syria to battle alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Shiite fighters, primarily from Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, are now flowing [...]

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WADING THROUGH THE SYRIAN LABYRINTH

May 22, 2013

The Syrian state and its population are being indirectly attacked by US/EU/NATO/UN; and directly by Israel, HERE and also HERE, by the autocratic dictatorships of the GCC-Gulf Cooperation Council: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, UAE (mostly Sunni Muslims) in partnership with Turkey (secular), and by Al Qaeda plus a diversity of mercenary jihadists (by [...]

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Syria’s jihadists have edge, control oil

May 22, 2013

Source: UPI The seizure of Syrian oil fields by the al-Nusra Front could accelerate the breakup of Syria amid a reshaping of the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. The seizure of Syrian oil fields by jihadist rebels of the al-Nusra Front could accelerate the breakup of Syria amid a conflict-driven reshaping of the Middle East’s geopolitical [...]

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Syrian Rebels in Trouble: German Intelligence Sees Assad Regaining Hold

May 22, 2013

Source: Der Spiegel Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that the BND now believes the Syrian military of autocrat Bashar Assad is more stable than it has been in a long time and is capable of undertaking successful operations [...]

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General says Israel will smash Syria’s arsenals if Assad falls

May 22, 2013

Source: Reuters Israel is poised to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel’s air force chief said on Wednesday. But Major-General Amir Eshel, addressing a security conference, said his warplanes could be repelled by Syria’s formidable, Russian-supplied anti-aircraft systems – an [...]

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Syrian Army Detains French, British, Belgian, Dutch, Qatari Officers in al-Qusseir

May 21, 2013

Editor’s Note: You can be your own judge. Related Articles: Spy chief: Dutch citizens fighting in Syria ,Libya transporting weapons and fighters to Syria: Americans, Moroccans, Libyans, Egyptians, Bosnians fighting alongside rebel forces , Turkish Intelligence transporting al-Qaeda from Pakistan to fight in Syria, Are Yemeni militants fighting alongside al-Qaeda in Syria?, Yemen Is Sending Thousands Of Young Men To Fight [...]

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Battle for Qusair raises threat of Syria partition

May 21, 2013

Source: France 24 More than two years after the conflict began, Syria today is totally transformed. While experts discuss the threat of partition, on the ground, Syria is effectively a divided country. “What the country is experiencing today is in fact a real partition – even if it’s not official,” said Syrian anthropologist Randa Kassis [...]

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Sahel: Algeria’s Proxy War

May 21, 2013

Source: moroccoboard Who is benefiting from recent MUJAO terrorist attacks in the Sahel? What party wants to weaken the resolve of the Touareg people and undermine the Azawadi rights to local rule in a unified Mali? To answer these questions, Western diplomats need to take a closer look at the long-term effects of the MUJAO’s military [...]

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Syria Defending Itself from the Intrigues of Israel: Al-Qaeda, America, Gulf powers and Tel Aviv

May 21, 2013

Source:MTT The nation of Syria is surrounded by many hostile nations which are openly siding with al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a proxy of outside nations. In the past Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan also tried to entangle Syria into a broader conflict because he knows NATO [...]

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Israeli, Syrian troops trade fire in Golan Heights and the strategic battle for Qusair

May 21, 2013

Source: WP Israeli military and Syrian regular army troops exchanged fire early Tuesday along the cease-fire line in the occupied Golan Heights, an area that has become a potential flash point for spillover from the civil war in Syria. After an Israel Defense Forces jeep was hit by small-arms fire from the Syrian military post, [...]

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The future of propaganda: big data will be a key part of the propaganda campaigns around the wars.

May 21, 2013

Source: Gigaom In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called “The Mathematics of War.” Gourley had been working with the Pentagon, the United Nations and the Iraqi Government to help them better understand the nature of the insurgency in Iraq, and in his presentation he announced something fairly striking: After analyzing the location, timing, [...]

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Pepsi to march in, as foreign troops leave Afghanistan

May 20, 2013

Source: Yahoo PepsiCo will open its first plant in Afghanistan in 2014, its Afghan partner said on Monday, the same year foreign troops complete their withdrawal from the country after 13 years of war. “It will go on stream in 2014,” Hamed Kakar, head of marketing for Dubai-based Alokozay, which has an exclusive bottling agreement with PepsiCo [...]

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Syria’s Low-Intensity Conflict | Hybrid War: A military-strategic assessment

May 18, 2013

Source: JP The overall geostrategic characteristic of the Syrian military picture is a robust armed struggle for supply routes, lines of communication, major highways and key choke points that is somewhat similar to the initial phase of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1947 – a battle for the roads. As a component of the Battle [...]

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Hezbollah fighters head to strategic Aleppo town as fighting rages

May 18, 2013

Source: Al Arabiya Battles raged in Qusayr between fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah and the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), as activists reported the killing of at least 10 Hezbollah members. Sources told Al Arabiya early Sunday morning that Hezbollah fighters are reportedly heading to Qusayr, located in the central Homs province. [...]

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US smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels: The real Benghazi story

May 15, 2013

Source: Asia Tribune There is a ‘side story’ going on in the American media – both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the American ‘post’ in Benghazi, Libya last September 11 which killed American ambassador Christopher Steven and three others; The emphasis and the debate is on why the event [...]

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Hezbollah Fighters reach Syrian-Jordanian border

May 14, 2013

Source: Ammon News Hezbollah forces fighting in Syria are advancing southwards towards the border town of Deraa on the Syrian-Jordanian borders, a source affiliated with Hezbollah said. Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah fighting forces are sent to Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime’s military, including a comprehensive logistics team from Hezbollah’s Military chiefs of staff [...]

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CIA and MI6 ‘GHOST MONEY’ Fueling Afghanistan’s Opium drug trade and guerrilla warfare in Syria

May 12, 2013

Source: HP Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking ‘ghost money’ from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of ‘national security’, but are estimated to have been tens of millions of dollars. While this is nowhere near the eye-bleeding $12billion shipped over to Iraq on [...]

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In eastern Syria oil smugglers benefit from chaos

May 10, 2013

Editors Notes: The military community, historians and media have not and will not call for what the war for Syria is. Chaotic and brutal war-fighting using guerrilla warfare tactics to kill the enemy/people.The war result will never be final, only more chaos and despair will come to those on both sides of the line. Source: TZ In Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zor, [...]

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The Fourth Great War

May 7, 2013

Source: Algemeiner The announcement bySecretary of Defense Hagelthat the United States will “rethink all options” including arming Syrian rebel groups, was carefully hedged. “It doesn’t mean… you will” (choose any particular path). The statement however moves the U.S. closer to picking sides in a war with no good options and no good allies, and which [...]

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Authorization for Use of Military Force: a blank check for war without end

May 5, 2013

Source: Guardian A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed after the attacks of 11 September 2001, and provides the legal cornerstone for the so-called US “war on terror”. Only one brave Congress [...]

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“Mission Accomplished”: Civil war in Iraq has already begun … it will be worse than Syria

May 2, 2013

Source: Belfast Telegraph Iraqi leaders fear that the country is sliding rapidly into a new civil war which “will be worse than Syria”. Baghdad residents are stocking up on rice, vegetables and other foodstuffs in case they are prevented from getting to the shops by fighting or curfews. “It is wrong to say we are [...]

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War moves in cycles, from air power to the ‘way of the knife’

May 2, 2013

Source: Telegraph The three British soldiers tragically killed in Helmand this week were travelling in a remarkable vehicle. The Mastiff 3 looks like the meeting point of two methods of war. Its boxy, armoured cladding and motorised turret speak to an earlier generation of tank manoeuvres on the plains of Europe. But its speed and [...]

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UWSA rebels caught up in regional chess match for control of trade routes and resources in the Golden Triangle

May 2, 2013

Source: Irrawaddy China did not sell helicopter gunships to ethnic Wa paramilitaries in eastern Burma, Wa sources speaking to The Irrawaddy claimed this week. The alleged deal was reported by Jane’s Intelligence Review on Monday, citing Burmese government and Wa sources. But as the Burmese military steps up its offensive against ethnic rebels in Shan [...]

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C.I.A., warlords, paedophilia bazaar, looting, drug trafficking – Afghanistan heading for ‘civil war’ when west withdraws in 2014

April 29, 2013

Editor’s Note: Are there covert strategies to foment a future civil war in Afghanistan? The West has no intention of withdrawing from Afghanistan. Global Opium trade and sex trafficking rings are fueling clandestine operations to rig elections, conduct regime changes, assassinations,drone strikes all off the books. You all get the point. Related Article: CIA’s paramilitary [...]

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George Orwell and the American complex terror

April 27, 2013

Source: Pravda When Orwell wrote his most famous novel, which happened to be the most emblematic of dramatic past century, he was not writing about Soviet Union and Stalin. He was basically writing a dystopia about Britain, the ruined Britain of Churchill and Lord Beveridge, a desperate country ruled now by conservative nihilism, social security [...]

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Western backed Al-Qaeda battles for control of Assad’s chemical weapons plant

April 27, 2013

Source: Telegraph Set amid the rolling plains outside Aleppo, the town of al-Safira looks just like another vicious battleground in Syria’s civil war. On one side are lightly-armed rebels, on the other are government troops, and in between is a hotly-contested no-man’s land of bombed-out homes and burned-out military vehicles. The fight for al-Safira is [...]

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Blowback: Qatar faces backlash among rebel groups in Syria

April 24, 2013

Source: TDS In a war-battered suburb of Damascus, a commander for one of the smaller nationalist brigades fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad grumbles about the lack of ammunition for his men. He blames Qatar, saying the oil-rich Gulf state directs its backing to rebels with a more Islamist ideology. Tiny, U.S.-allied Qatar has emerged as one of [...]

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The Geopolitical Powderkegs Most Likely to Start the Next Major War

April 24, 2013

Source: IO9 Predicting future conflicts is not easy, especially considering that social unrest and dramatic political changes can happen at virtually any time. But world-altering events don’t unfold in a vacuum — it’s all about reading the signs. Here are seven geopolitical hotspots that have the potential to change the course of history. Since the [...]

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