"On December 3, Syrian government forces broke the militant defense line in the northern part of eastern Aleppo pocket and secured significant areas west of the Aleppo International Airport. The Syrian army set a full control over Tareeq al-Bab and al-Myassar Jazmati neighborhoods and seized a number of points in Sheikh Lutfi. Government attacks in Seikh Saeed that the army and its allies had lost to militants few days ago. However, this operation didn’t result in gains.
On December 4, the army and its allies continued advances against Jaish al-Fatah militants in the northern and southern parts of eastern Aleppo pocket. At the same time, reports appeared that Syrian engineers are working to restore the Ramouseh-Sheikh Saeed road in order to ease troop movement and supply delivers for the advancing government forces in the area.
The Syrian military sees constant pressure on militant forces on multiple fronts in Aleppo city as an important task because this allows pro-government forces to exploit Jaish al-Fatah’s lack of manpower.
The army keeps two options to split the remaining Aleppo pocket into separate parts as it has been done previously:
- To advance from al-Myassar Jazmati to the Aleppo Citadel
- To advance from Sheikh Lufti to the Aleppo Citadel
Local sources report that the recent developments destroyed Jaish al-Fatah’s fighting spirit and motivated Syrian troops for offensive operations. Nonetheless, nobody in the Syrian and Russian command staff expect an easy win in the coming days." AMN
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Well, pilgrims, the Rooshans and Suriyeen are saying the right things, but I think the Aleppo battle will end in the next couple of weeks.
From the map it would seem that R+6 agrees with SST tactical analysis.
The jihadis refuse to leave Aleppo? Well, shucks! Good. A lot more of the rats will die there. pl
During World War 2, the British ran a number of black propaganda radio stations against the Germans where they used a powerful RCA transmitter installed in south east England to broadcast the signal of fake illegal German military radio stations which mixed truth with propaganda. The best known of these was Gustav Siegfried Eins where the final transmission was the head of the station being interrupted by what were claimed to be Gestapo machine-guns and then being gunned down. The station was replaced by Soldatensender Calais.
I wonder with Bana Alabed if someone in MI-6 dusted down the black propaganda radio station SOP and recycled it for the Twitter age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Siegfried_Eins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldatensender_Calais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Warfare_Executive
Posted by: Ghostship | 05 December 2016 at 03:39 PM
Guy Burgess, I think, conceived of the idea and produced many of the early ones.
Brian Howard, the original for Waugh's Miles Malpractice, wrote several of them, including what is considered the best, which included a concentration camp.
They used to hang out in the cellar of the Cafe Royale.
Posted by: johnf | 05 December 2016 at 04:47 PM
I'll grant that Hillary taking office after sputtering and fuming on the sidelines watching her pet project get destroyed for over two months would not be a good thing. But I think that would also be incentive for R+6 to bring the hammer down even harder.
Posted by: Thirdeye | 05 December 2016 at 06:57 PM