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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Meh, not really. The Syrian military was crap. They needed a ton of help from Hezbollah and Iran to stay around during the early days of the civil war, and almost lost completely on a few occasions.
They also have resorted to using suitcase bombs dumped out of planes and helicoptors to bring Aleppo to heel.
And first-hand - driving around Syria in 2003, you could see what a joke their military was: rusty tank after rusty tank without treads along the highways with fearsome fourteen year old soldiers sitting on the tops cradling rusty AKs from 1965. Sure, there were some better armed groups in the military, but that was what I saw a lot of.
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I didn't say that they had the best weapons, just a lot of them. ISIS isn't operating with high tech weapons either. Just a willingness to use them.