{"id":32668,"date":"2018-03-22T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32668"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:46:20","slug":"the-russian-military-warns-a-major-war-in-syria-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32668","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Military Warns: a Major War in Syria Is Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Russian Military Warns: a Major War in Syria Is Imminent<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

On March 17, the Russian General Staff warned about an imminent attack on Syria. The\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0did not elaborate. Of course, some information is classified but an independent and impartial analysis of publicly available information leads one to the same conclusion. Let\u2019s look at the facts.<\/p>\n

There are warships deployed by US Navy in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf. They are ready to launch roughly 400 long-range Tomahawks against a target in the Middle East on any given day. Sea-launched cruise missiles were used to strike Syria in April. Anything that is at all related to the military operations on\u00a0the island of Diego Garcia<\/a>\u00a0in the Indian Ocean is hush-hush information, but it\u2019s an open secret that the strategic bombers based there can launch at least a hundred cruise missiles and then use other high-precision munitions in a follow-up attack. On average, one bomber carries 20\u00a0AGM-86 ALCMs<\/a>. Five bombers are believed to be normally stationed on this island that is off-limits to inquisitive outsiders. This means that at least 500 cruise missiles can be fired on short notice.<\/p>\n

On March 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0that Great Britain, France, and some additional countries besides the US had special forces operating in Syria that were engaging the Syrian Army directly. But it\u2019s not just commandos.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0was reported<\/a>\u00a0on March 16 that the UK would be stationing a significant number of troops at the US-controlled Al-Tanf military base, adjacent to the Iraqi border. This facility is\u00a0prominently<\/a>\u00a0eatured in NATO\u2019s war planning in Syria. It blocks the corridor linking Iran to Lebanon via Syria and Iraq. The size of the deployment \u2014 about 2,300 troops accompanied by tanks and helicopters \u2014 is too significant just to be intended to fight Islamic State militants who are already on the run.<\/p>\n

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The Russian Military Warns: a Major War in Syria Is Imminent On March 17, the Russian General Staff warned about an imminent attack on Syria. The\u00a0statement\u00a0did not elaborate. Of course, some information is classified but an independent and impartial analysis of publicly available information leads one to the same conclusion. Let\u2019s look at the facts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19390,522,553,694,8203,776,827,1127,862],"class_list":["post-32668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arkady-savitsky","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-navy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32668\/revisions\/32669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}