The Syrian Armed Forces Seven Years into the Conflict: From a Regular Army to Volunteer Corps
... within the country, a conflict for which they were wholly unprepared. In particular, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was dominated exclusively by heavy armoured and mechanized infantry... ... served as mobile armoured and mechanized infantry units (which were used throughout Syria) in the areas under the greatest threat, with reinforcement from units of other... ... 15th Special Forces Divisions, thus providing armoured support to them . Lebanese Hezbollah detachments were subsequently used as an infantry component of the 4th Mechanized...
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