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Moscow's Game of Poker: Russian Military Intervention in Syria, 20152017 (Middle East@War),Used
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In August 2015, the government of the Russian Federation embarked its military forces on an intervention in Syria. Ever since, there is no end of discussions about Russian military capabilities and intentions in Syria and beyond.To many, the performance of the Russian military and especially the Russian AirSpace Force (VKS) in this war was a clear demonstration of advanced technology, improved training, fearsome firepower, and great mobility.To others, the military operation only experienced limited success and exposed a number of weaknesses. Foremost between the latter are aircraft illsuited to the necessities of expeditionary warfare, and a gross lack of advanced weaponry and equipment.While the military component of their intervention can only be described as providing clear evidence that the Russian military is in no condition to directly challenge the NATOs eastern frontiers, it cannot be denied that through this action Moscow instrumented a turning point in the Syrian Civil War, and indeed one on geostrategic plan. Organized and run in cooperation with very diverse allies ranging from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran (IRGC), Hezbollah of Lebanon, the Kurdishan Workers Party (PKK) and a myrad of local warlords and their armed militias their combination of intentional bombardment of insurgentcontrolled parts of Syria, and indirect protection for the IRGCs own military intervention in the country from a possible counterintervention of the West, the Russians did succeed in saving the regime of the Syrian President Bashar alAssad. Through this, this campaign created an absurd precedent in newest history: a brutal dictatorship involved in systematic elimination of hundreds of thousands on industrial scale, and frequently with help of chemical weapons, was even made popular within circles of farright and farleft alike around the World. In turn, the resulting flow of refugees destabilized the European Union and large parts of the NATO two parties considered the actual primary opponents by the government in Moscow and increased the popularity of the President Vladimir Putin to unprecedented levels.Illustrated by over 130 photographs, maps and color profiles, Moscow's Game of Poker is providing a clear outline of the participants in this extremely complex conflict, and areas it impacts. It is providing a unique and indepth study of Moscows political aims, strategy, doctrine, target selection process, military technology and tactics, daybyday operations, and the way the Russian Federation cooperates with diverse local allies. This story is told in combination with an exclusive insight into the similar campaign run by what is left of the Syrian Arab Air Force.
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