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Three killed, 40 wounded in car bomb near Turkish police station
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Page 4: Opinion
Hezbollah's Strategy in Syria Won't Help Against Israel	1 10:08 Iblis [11123]
Page 1: WoT Operations
More on bombed Turks	0 [11123]
Klingon asset control problem and U.S. headache in Libya	4 15:30 AlanC [11128]
More bombed Turks	0 [11124]
Good morning	5 22:15 Bov Flimbers [11125]
Russia launches second Syria bombing raid from Iran	4 23:12 Bov Flimbers [11126]
IDF arrests key Hamas elections official and 20 others in the West Bank	1 23:08 Bov Flimbers [11129]
Taliban checkpoint overrun in Logar	0 [11127]
20 ANA soldiers die in 24 hours	0 [11126]
ISIS shadow official busted in Jawzjan	0 [11125]
12 militants die in airstrike in Rajgal	0 [11125]
2 Paki journalists wounded in Karachi shooting	0 [11126]
Top Tunisian Terrorist Taken by Libyan militia group	0 [11123]
Good Guys hammer Bad Guys in Sirte	2 22:34 Bov Flimbers [11126]
Attempt made on Libya militia leader	0 [11125]
Houthis cut last supply route into Taiz	0 [11124]
Turkish-backed jihadists capture ISIS stronghold in north Aleppo	0 [11127]
Houthi forces destroy several Saudi Army vehicles in Jizan	0 [11128]
Soddys hammer several provinces in Yemen	1 10:08 Glairong Sforza7574 [11128]
ISIS launches a massive offensive on Kuweirus	0 [11126]
Jihadist repel Syrian Army attack on Ramousah Base	0 [11126]
Fierce clashes erupt in Al-Hasakah as Kurdish police attack government forces	0 [11122]
Helmand Battles Ease Slightly After Heavy Clashes	0 [11129]
ISIS hammers Syrian troops' positions in Deir ez-Zor	0 [11123]
Three killed, 40 wounded in car bomb near Turkish police station	0 [11130]
The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi and Syrian Edition	2 23:27 Bov Flimbers [11128]
Kurds drive back ISIS attack in Dagug	0 [11126]
Shaboobs claim to have killed a U.S. soldier in Raid	0 [11127]
Hostage due for beheading escapes	0 [11122]
Anbar Antics	0 [11125]
Attack on Army convoy kills 3, Hizbul owns up	0 [11125]
Ninevah Nightmares: 50+ die	0 [11127]
Baghdad Bomb and Bullet Bulletin: 4 dead	0 [11130]
In Afghanistan, the Taliban Advance	0 [11124]
Air Strikes Target al Qaeda in Yemen, Troops Capture Aden District	0 [11127]
Retaliatory Russian and Syrian Air Raids on Neighbourhoods in Aleppo Kill 19 Civilians	0 [11124]
Al-Qaeda Terrorists Surrender to Yemen Army	1 22:40 Bov Flimbers [11127]
Taliban hangs 3 Afghan soldiers, 3 others in Afghanistan	0 [11124]
German special forces arrest terror suspect planning catastrophic bomb attack on festival	0 [11124]
Page 2: WoT Background
Turkey starts releasing 38,000 jailed for pre-coup crimes to make room for purge arrests	0 [11125]
French prime minister backs local burqini bans, urges calm	0 [11127]
Soros Attempted To Influence Supremes On Illegal Immigration Decisions	2 20:16 Blossom Unains5562 [11126]
Khizr Khan, Kinky Lick, What's The Difference?	5 23:39 Bov Flimbers [11128]
Questions Raised Over Sudden Fall Of Baghlan's Dahna-e-Ghori	1 23:51 Bov Flimbers [11127]
Iran rejects arrest of British, French diplomats	0 [11125]
Pak's Use of Terror Major Roadblock in Ties: Foreign Secretary	0 [11125]
Iran says Russian bombers only refuel at Hamadan base	1 00:22 Raj [11128]
Court sends suspected LeT operative to JC till Sep 15	0 [11126]
Baby Bin Laden Calls for Saudi Gov't to Be Ousted, End of US Influence	7 21:51 Clerert and Company5286 [11128]
Turkey: Crucial Discussions on Constitutional Amendments in Absence of Kurds	0 [11123]
Hamas Expresses Concern over Ties with Iran	3 15:22 magpie [11125]
Egypt Launches Inquiry Into Two Prominent Politicians Suspected Of Spying For Hezbollah	0 [11133]
Baltimore police lieutenant suspended after calling Black Lives Matter protesters ‘thugs’	7 15:17 magpie [11123]
US paid Iran $1.3 billion in cash to settle old dispute	10 14:50 Skidmark [11126]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Killing Two Birds With One Stone: KKK Plans To Disrupt BLM Rally In The Hamptons	4 22:37 CrazyFool [11130]
Louisiana paper to Obama: Cut vacation short	8 18:20 Secret Master [11131]
Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings	2 16:50 Zhang Fei [11124]
US Moves Nuclear Weapons from Turkey to Romania	4 14:44 Skidmark [11127]
Destruction of the U.S. military culture continues with post housing.	10 19:53 Crusader [11129]
A Heart Warming Family Story	1 14:45 Shipman [11127]
Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets	5 13:27 Bobby [11125]
Japan plans missile to test Chinese strategy in East China Sea	2 15:15 Skidmark [11125]
North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain defects from London	0 [11123]
Two teenagers 'robbed and killed' Good Samaritan, 45, who helped them pull SUV out of a ditch	6 12:14 gorb [11128]
Serial arsonist behind California wildfires caught as Gore blames ‘global warming’	2 13:22 swksvolFF [11126]
NSA outage	0 [11123]
RT: Japanese video of JCG rousting Chinese flotilla near Senkaku	0 [11124]
Page 6: Politix
Oil companies paid off Gov. Brown for favorable regulations.	11 20:27 swksvolFF [11126]
Sharpton trashes Trump’s message for black voters	5 14:43 rjschwarz [11126]
Islamic State should be involved in Syrian peace talks, says Owen Smith	0 [11126]
Liz Cheney wins Republican primary for U.S. House	2 14:49 Shipman [11124]
Hillary's Headhunter: Sleazeball Ken Salazar	5 13:52 gorb [11129]
Feminist Magazine: Bill Clinton Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Guy If He Raped Juanita Broaddrick	9 21:17 Zenobia Floger6220 [11128]
Boston Globe: Suspend donations to Clinton Foundation	5 16:42 Blossom Unains5562 [11124]
Trump campaign shakeup	3 17:08 Blossom Unains5562 [11122]
Egg McMuffin Is In Favor Of Amnesty	1 18:53 swksvolFF [11128]

Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah's Strategy in Syria Won't Help Against Israel

[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Over the last three years of the Syrian Civil War, Hezbollah has increasingly operated as a regular army rather than in its traditional, decades-long role as a guerrilla force. The Shiite group has operated Syrian tanks and artillery, jeeps with recoilless rifles, and is even rumored to have acquired its own 75-tank armored brigade. As a result, some pundits have begun suggesting that Hezbollah has transformed into "an army in every respect," as Haaretz columnist Amos Harel has written. Others, like Foreign Policy's Nour Samaha, have suggested that "Israel may have reason to be concerned," that Hezbollah will "transfer the skills learned in Syria to any future confrontation with Israel," and fight the IDF as a conventional army.

That's unlikely. As long as the Jewish state remains the vastly superior conventional force, Hezbollah will continue to fight it according to its old successful guerilla methods. To confront the Israelis army-to-army would all but ensure Hezbollah's defeat.

Hezbollah participated in the Syrian Civil War almost from its outset in 2011, but by 2013 had transformed from its traditional insurgency tactics to acting as a counterinsurgency force against Syrian rebels. Since then, it has been conducting open warfare along established frontlines to conquer and control territory and knock out its foes, participating in combined-arms maneuvers with Iranian, Syrian, and Russian forces. Its fighters have even acted as battlefield commanders of Syrian troops.

Still, despite its growing strength and battlefield experience, Hezbollah is far from closing the gap in conventional strength with Israel. The Israel Defense Forces has made clear it intends to exploit that asymmetry "in the most muscular way possible" to score the decisive victory against the group that has eluded them in the past. The IDF's new plan, which it would follow in a war with Hezbollah, is called the Gideon Doctrine (outlined in a shorter, unclassified version titled "IDF Strategy"), which calls for a rapid deployment of ground-forces, simultaneous with aerial, naval, artillery, and cyber attacks. Israel's new strategy is to quickly penetrate Hezbollah's territory to damage its political and military infrastructure, while at the same time raining overwhelming fire on its targets.

            Posted by: Fred  ||
            08/18/2016            00:00   ||
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#1 This, for once, is not about Israel. The Hizzies are learning how to take over Lebanon for good.

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11	Islamic State
5	Taliban
3	Govt of Iran
3	Sublime Porte
3	Govt of Syria
2	Houthis
2	Commies
2	Hamas
2	Hezbollah
2	al-Qaeda in Arabia
1	Lashkar e-Taiba
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1	Abu Sayyaf
1	al-Nusra
1	al-Qaeda
1	al-Shabaab
1	Hizbul Mujaheddin

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Three killed, 40 wounded in car bomb near Turkish police station

Wed 2016-08-17
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Tue 2016-08-16
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Mon 2016-08-15
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Sun 2016-08-14
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Sat 2016-08-13
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Fri 2016-08-12
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Thu 2016-08-11
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Wed 2016-08-10
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Tue 2016-08-09
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Mon 2016-08-08
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