| Description |
1 online resource (54 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Series |
Middle East security report ; 26 |
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Middle East security report ; 26
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| Summary |
Bashar al-Assad is neither a viable partner against ISIS nor the 'least worst option' for U.S. national interests in Syria for three reasons. First, the Assad regime cannot control the territory that was Syria or win the Syrian war decisively. Second, the Assad regime is Iran's strategic asset in Syria and Assad is beholden to Iran for keeping his military viable. Third, Assad's brutal tactics and humanitarian abuses have accelerated the growth of jihadist groups regionally and globally. Manpower limitations have led Assad to adopt a military strategy of an 'army in all corners' which involves the establishment and defense of remote regime outposts throughout Syria in order to pin the outer bounds of a contiguous post-war Syrian state. The growth of the Iranian presence in Syria challenges key U.S. regional allies as well as wider U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East. Assad is accelerating the growth of violent jihadist movements in Syria, the region, and globally. The abuses of the Assad regime contribute to a deepening humanitarian crisis which threatens to overwhelm the region. The current status quo trends in the Syrian Civil War are untenable for U.S. national interests. Allowing the Syrian regime to conduct its military campaign with impunity sows the seeds for generations of regional disorder to come and empowers the expansionist designs of the Iranian regime |
| Notes |
"April 2015"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-54) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ISW, viewed May 6, 2015) |
| SUBJECT |
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001320
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| Subject |
Syria.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Institute for the Study of War (Washington, D.C.), publisher.
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