Posted on 07/23/2007 10:05:12 AM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) Syria sees the next war with Israel as involving missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and front-line guerilla warfare, an anonymous senior official in the Syrian Ministry of Defense told Defense News Weekly, in an interview appearing Monday. Syria prefers to avoid a direct, "classic" confrontation with Israel, he said. Instead, the next war will involve Katyusha rocket and ballistic missiles that will target strategic points in Israel, especially civilian infrastructure.
The official said that the war will not be limited to a single strike, but will be protracted in nature. "This will be a war of attrition, which the Israelis are not good at," he explained. The conflict, he said, "will be more like a war between cities than a war on the battlefield."
According to Arab affairs expert Dr. Guy Bechor, the Syrian assessment is a result of the Second Lebanon War. After that war the Syrians understood that they do not need a large ground force to defeat Israel, but rather missiles aimed at dense Israeli population centers. For the past two years the Syrians have been engaged in massive acquisitions from Russia, after an $11 billion debt was partially forgiven by Russia in 2005, and partially covered by Iran.
Following the unimpressive performance by the IDF in last year’s war, Bechor explains, Syria beg The conflict, he said, will be more like a war between cities than a war on the battlefield. an equipping itself with advanced anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank missiles and cruise missiles.
The Syrian army numbers 650,000 soldiers, including 354,000 reservists, according to Defense News. Its tanks are outdated Soviet models, however, and its air force is inferior to Israel's.
The London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat recently reported that Syria has deployed Chinese C-802 cruise missiles, which it acquired from Iran. In addition, Russia has expressed its willingness to sell the Syrians its Iskander missile, which has a range of 280 kilometers, more than enough to strike at any destination in Israel. The missile features an optical GPS navigational system that allows operators to guide it to their targets.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat also reported Saturday that Iran secretly promised Syria it would provide $1 billion for buying advanced weapons and assist it with nuclear research and the development of chemical weapons, in exchange for a Syrian promise not to negotiate peace with Israel. However, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman dismissed the report as a "media game" and asked how the media could know about the deal if it was confidential.
Arab affairs experts also questioned the veracity of the report, noting that it was written by an exiled Iranian who may simply have wanted to portray Iran's leadership in a bad light.
So far, they pretty much have, and that includes the Islamic wars with the U.S.
At least it isn’t going to be bombastic!
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Arabs are not good Chess players.
The Syrian leadership is dumber than a houseplant to throw their lot in with the Persians. Worse than dumb, it’s suicidal.
Contrasted with the sweetheart deal they could have negotaited with the United States at little cost to themselves - but great advantages.
As it is they look to be on the path to death and destruction without mercy. And for what?
read Isaiah 17:1 if you have any doubt what the response will be.
The Ultimate Ballistic
How do you figure? During GWI, Saddam launched dozens of Scuds at Israel & couldn't provoke a response. Granted that the US was telling Israel not to complicate things by retalliating. IIRC, Israel reserved the right to retalliate IF any of Saddam's Scuds were carring Gas, Biotoxins, or radiological warhead (crude A-Bomb).
Israel will probably ride-out any small-scale missile attack until they can tell if it involved WMD's -- at THAT point, the gloves are off. Up to that point it will be Tit-for-Tat, except that Israel will want to hit a little harder to prove that they can dominate any escallation.
I know. That’s why the awakening for them is going to be so rude — and for us, so enjoyable.
If that's true, then does he think the Israeli's will just sit there passively and be attrited....their airforce, using conventional weapons, could level Damascus in three days.
If they want to do it faster....they can!
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First rule of combative/aggressive behavior:
First you do the doin’, THEN you do the talkin’, but don’t talk so much you miss any try at payback.
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This bozo would sound like something out of a comic book, except that the idiots in the DBM eat this crap up and validate the Delta Sierra’s that spout it.
.......then, the same morons in the DBM will wonder why the response from Israel/US (when it finally comes)is “soooooooo violent”. (Sorry, but I don’t do lisping titters very well.)
Well, Saddam Hussein is dead, we pretty much own Iraq - that didn't work out well for Saddam.
I think they need “big Ben”! BeBe they need you now!
An absurd statement by a sandmaggot without a clue.
What Syria and Iran have in the way of technology is no more "ballistic" than throwing a rock over the Israeli protective fence.
Using words that inply "hi-tech" makes these idiots proud, but they continue to remain --- well, clueless.
Sad, but true and undeniable. When outnumbered 100 to one, "war of attrition", in the concentional sense, is a non-starter.
Hey VET - welcome.
War and rumors of war. Same old, same old.
Syria has a lot of devastating WMD to put in those missiles.
So, Israel would no choice but to burn everything from the border to north of Damascas. Whether Southern Lebanon gets it too depends on the intelligence of how much WMD Syria has positioned there too.
So, in other words, Syria is not going to do a damn thing. They would have a few intelligent people in the government and the military I assume.
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