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Originally Posted by blankall
Sounds like Assad's army didn't fight back and largely just abandoned their posts too. He wasn't paying or arming them properly, and he'd worked his way pretty deep into the reserves. An army composed of people forced to fight for someone they didn't support.
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It was obviously a different situation, but a similar thing happened in Iraq when the U.S. invaded. A lot of Saddam Hussein's soldiers just put on their civies and went home. It wasn't worth dying for a leader that had such low approval and was resented by most people.
I am sure that Assad had his hardcore supporters, but the cult of personality had fallen off significantly over the past decade.