[PapaBear3625]

The big question will be: how many Syrian soldiers are going to want to fight Turkey in order to keep the Assad regime in power?

[Tallguy]

We may find out very shortly. I'm thinking that Turkey might be preparing a punitive raid along the Syrian border by moving some combat brigades a few miles into Syrian territory and setting up a defensive enclave. Turkey has shown the ability to project power short distances, so they could do this. It would then be up to Assad's forces to try to eject them. The Syrian regime could conceivably collapse if Assad's forces fail. But War is the Province of Uncertainty, so who knows what could happen.

[Alter Kaker]

The big question will be: how many Syrian soldiers are going to want to fight Turkey in order to keep the Assad regime in power?

Does it really matter? Even if they all did, Syria's army poses absolutely no threat to Turkey in any kind of conventional sense. Syria's army is small, poorly trained and reliant on 1950s and 1960s era Soviet technology. Syria has thousands and thousands of obsolete Soviet tanks -- easy pickings for Turkey's modern air force (unless of course Turkey runs out of bombs -- which I think is pretty unlikely).