Indonesian Free Press - Only 40 Russian combat aircraft and 10,000 troops and Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, combat conditions in Syria turned 180 degrees.
Until mid-2015, the rebels control the entire battlefield and was on the verge of victory, having won a number of strategic positions, especially around the province of Aleppo and Latakia. But the arrival of the troops of the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian military advisers, Iraqi Shiite militias, Shia militias Pakistan and Afghanistan (Hizbollah already operating in Syria), as well as Russian warplanes on the battlefield, successfully urged the rebels from all strategic areas.
Now the situation is reversed. If nothing changes, the rebels will almost certainly be expelled out of Syria, or crushed on the battlefield. That is why Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which has sacrificed a lot of time and energy trying to overthrown the government of Bashar al Assad, determined to intervene to protect 'his men' are threatened.
Actually, the number of coalition military forces of Iran and Russia and its allies in Syria is small compared to the number of Syrian rebel forces. ISIS group, for example, is estimated to have up to 100,000 personnel members, FSA 50,000 50,000 Islamic Front, Al Nusra Front 13.000, 30.000 Halab Fatah personnel, and other groups 8,500 personnel (source wikipedia).
The Syrian military itself does have about 170,000 troops. But the majority of them should be in charge of maintaining security, not to fight. Of that amount, which has the function of fighting only 20,000 to 30,000 personnel.
The number 10,000 troops and Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi militias expressed by senior journalists England, Robert Fisk, in his report in 'The Independent' last month titled 'Syria civil war: State-of-the-art technology Gives President Assad's army the edge' , Of that amount, 'only' about 5,000 people are Iranian military personnel.
Meanwhile, in a comparison of air power, Russia start to get involved in the Syrian conflict in September 2015, just put 40 fighters in Syria. Compare this with the 180 aircraft that US-led coalition since the mid 2014 launched air strikes against the ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Although the western mass media is constantly trying to shape public opinion about the ineffectiveness of Russian military operations in Syria, a NATO report concludes otherwise. The report mentions that the Russian military operation was far superior to the coalition military operations launched in America in terms of 'accuracy and efficiency'.
Sputnik News reported recently, quoting NATO report on the comparison of military operations of Russia and the NATO coalition in the Middle East that was launched by the sites 'Focus Online', the impact of the Russian air attacks more powerful than American coalition air strikes.
"The number of Russian aircraft were deployed clearly inferior compared to NATO, but the quantity of a larger attack on the Russian air planes make it more effective," according to the report mentions.
According to the report, Russia is able to hold 75 attacks each day with a level of accuracy and greater efficiency. While the American-NATO coalition is only capable of launching 20 attacks each day.
In addition, Russia also deployed aircraft are superior to the American coalition, like fighter-bomber SU-35. Plus, the air attack, the Russian intelligence uses data supplied by the Syrian military in addition to the supply of data from the Russian intelligence apparatus itself, until the data is more up-to-date and real.
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