Chapter 45: Weak Country and Strong Soldiers
"When I go, I will negotiate thousands of times, and Liu Xiaobin brought a very important piece of information! The narrative is composed of a network structure.
In a sense, Syria is not a strong country. Even in the Middle East, its strength ranks behind Israel, Iran and Egypt. It is not even as strong as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. As a country with only 30,000 people sacrificed, its land area is less than 10,000 square kilometers, and it does not have too many mineral resources. It is not suitable for agriculture and farming. Syria is neither strong enough to dominate the Middle East, nor weak enough to be easily ruled by other countries. After World War II, Syria merged with Egypt into the "United Arab Republic" to become the center of the Arab world and defeat Israel. After just the clams, the two countries split into ways, namely the later Syrian Arab Republic and the Arab Egyptian Republic. This history is enough to prove that Syria is not a powerful country.
Compared with many Arab brother countries, Syria is in the worst situation. In any case, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have rich oil resources. As long as they work hard to manage, even if the oil is no longer valuable, they can still be self-sufficient and prosperous. Egypt does not have much oil, but it has the Suez Canal. The annual navigation fee is enough to support more than half of the Egyptians. With the cultural heritage of ancient Egyptian civilization, relying on the two major industries of canal and tourism, the Egyptians can live a prosperous life. Jordan does not have much oil, nor the convenience of the canal. In addition to the Dead Sea, there is a lack of tourist attractions that attract thousands of international tourists, but Jordan's population is less than thugs and sacrifices, and more than half of the citizens work in wealthy neighbors such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In addition to the billions of aid provided by European and American countries every year, it is enough to allow most citizens to live a prosperous life.
It can be seen from the Palestine-Israel peace plan proposed by the United States after the Third Middle East War that Syria is always in an optional situation. Although the main reason why the United States deliberately treats Syria indifferent is that it is impossible for Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria like it did to hand over the Sinai Peninsula, Syria's embarrassing situation is also a very important reason. In addition, Iran does not border Israel and needs to establish an enemy for Israel and thus use Israel to contain the entire Arab world. The United States has no reason to support Syria.
The question is here, what can a country with only 40,000 people in each other do?
In any case, Syria's military strength is not strong.
Before the Fourth India-Pakistan War, Syria's national defense strength was far inferior to Israel, and it was not even as good as Iraq, armed by the United States. Not to mention, among the main battle tanks of the Syrian Army at that time, there were fewer advanced ones. Most of them were powered by the witches in the century-old era and the style of the era. After the Fourth India-Pakistan War, Syria began to strengthen national defense construction, especially after the Iran War, the Syrian authorities placed national defense security before economic construction. Although Syria still did not have much capital at that time, we can find ways to obtain assistance from friendly countries. According to the intelligence mastered by the Military Intelligence Bureau. After the Iran War, because the Iranian authorities did not need to continue to maintain an army of nearly 2,000 people. Therefore, weapons and equipment were severely oversupply. When Iran cut its arms, 70,000 yuan of the remaining arms were provided to Syria free of charge.
Asia, at least, includes showing off a main battle tank and a thug and a thug. Although Iran cannot give the best equipment to Syria, for the Syrian army that has not purchased new equipment for many years, Iran's aid is simply emergency. In fact, during this period, the Republic also provided Syria free assistance. For example, after the Peninsula War, the Republic began to prepare for the subsequent Japanese war, and the army changed its clothes. The Air Force eliminated hundreds of combat aircraft in a few years. Some fighter jets gave free assistance to Syria, and some fighter jets sold to Syria at a very low price. For example, after the southern Tibet conflict, the situation in South Asia deteriorated sharply. War was inevitable. The Republic's army began to change clothes in full, and many main battle equipment eliminated during this period were free assistance to friendly countries like Syria.
All in all, before the four. The Syrian army basically survived on free aid.
It was not until the outbreak of the Syrian-Israel war that the Syrian authorities realized that there were great problems in their military power and decided to invest more funds in military construction. In this year, the Republic and Syria signed an extremely important treaty, namely the Sino-Syrian Friendship and Mutual Aid Alliance Treaty. Anyone who knows the history of the Republic knows that this ticket is an "entry ticket" to form an alliance with the Republic. As long as this treaty is signed with the Republic, it is a quasi-ally of the Republic. This is not a theoretical alliance treaty, but a treaty with clear and practical significance. Not to mention anything else, after signing the treaty, the Syrian authorities can obtain guarantees from the Republic authorities, use domestic resources, sovereign income, and other taxes, state-owned enterprises and other assets as collateral, and obtain loans from the Republic's financial enterprises.
Because it is not the first country to sign the treaty, the Syrian authorities are very clear about the importance of the treaty.
It was the signing of this treaty. At the end of that year, the Syrian authorities used the resource mining rights of Raqq, Hasek and Deirzur provinces as collateral to obtain long-term loans of a total of RMB from three private financial enterprises in the Republic. Mu Yong suspected that these three financial enterprises were closely related to resource enterprises such as Sanjian Group.
In fact, as early as the old year, the thugs were exploring source and believed that the Mailiu District of the Euphrates River in the Habul River should have relatively rich mineral resources. According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Syria can exchange the resource mining rights of three provinces for a year-long Tian Yiyuan loan, which has a lot to do with Jian Muxun, chairman of Sanjian Group. There is even reason to believe that it was Lin Muxun's active promotion that allowed Syria to obtain the loan. From another perspective, Gu Weimin signed the "Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" with Syria shortly after taking office. Most of it was the result of the joint promotion of the resource enterprises, financial enterprises, and even arms enterprises of the Republic. In Li Cunxun's words, providing Syria with RMB loans is undoubtedly a bait for fishing for big fish.
Unfortunately, this loan failed to help Syria win the Syrian-Israel war in the trade year.
In fact, Syria will definitely lose the Syrian-Israel war.
Before the outbreak of the Syrian-Israel War, the Syrian authorities were conducting secret negotiations with China National Heavy Industry Group, AVIC Group, and even the Dalian Shipyard of Northern Heavy Industry, hoping to purchase a batch of advanced weapons and equipment at a relatively low price. For example, the Republic Army's Concaiyi Instrument series main battle tanks, Zhaoyibian series infantry fighting vehicles, new electromagnetic guns, Concaiyi10,000 series vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, small-mouth series fighter jets, small electric attack submarines and small frigates. In short, Syria hopes to get these worlds as soon as possible.
First-class weapons and equipment. According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the negotiations were not going smoothly, mainly because the price was not reached. The main reason for the price was that several arms dealers in the Republic were not willing to sell weapons and equipment to Syria according to the "most-favored-nation" standards, and insisted that Syria pay extra fees. Because Syria had signed the "Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" with the Republic, it was equivalent to permanently obtaining the most-favored-nation treatment, so the arms dealers in the Republic made a fuss on this issue, clearly not wanting to sell weapons to Syria.
Asia.
Until two months before the outbreak of the Syrian-Israel war, the Republic signed the first arms sales contract with Syria.
There was no doubt that it was too late to provide arms to Syria at that time.
Because the Syrian-Israel war is a typical quick battle, the war has ended when the Syrian authorities urge the Republic's arms dealers to deliver the goods as soon as possible.
It is precisely this. The Syrian-Israeli war did not have much negative impact on the international image of the "Republic Card Arms".
During the entire Syrian-Israel war, Syria's main combat equipment came from Iran, and most of it was purchased by Iran from Russia before the Dao Year, and only a small part was produced in the Republic. Because these weapons and equipment have a history of more than ten thousand years and have serious performance lag. Therefore, it is not shameful to lose to the latest equipment of the United States on the battlefield.
It was only after the Syrian-Israel war that Syria’s national defense construction became formal.
As the saying goes, the old ones don’t go, and the new ones don’t come.
Although Syria lost very thoroughly in this brief conflict, it was equivalent to getting rid of the burden and being able to start from the foundation and rebuild a national defense force.
In the second half of the 20th year, the Syrian visiting delegation went to Beijing.
Before the end of that year, the Republic dispatched a military advisory group composed of close-knit people in accordance with the obligations stipulated in the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance to help Syria rebuild its national defense and military force. What surprised Pei Chengyi a little was that the leader of this military advisory group was General Su Jinhui.
Because Su Jinhui obviously does not belong to the "circle" person. Therefore, this matter did not attract attention, and did not even report it too much. More importantly, in external propaganda, the leader of the military advisory group was just a colonel officer, not a general of the Republic's army.
Anyway, this proves again. As early as a few years ago, the Republic was preparing for the Middle East war.
The primary task of the military advisory group is to help Syria rebuild its military force structure, and to formulate long-term development rules and advantages in accordance with the overall national defense policy proposed by the Syrian authorities, that is, the fundamental value of national defense forces, and then determine equipment development and procurement projects based on the long-term development plan. In this way, many contracts signed by the Syrian authorities with the Republic's arms companies before the war will be invalidated, and unilateral tearing up the collusion will definitely pay liquidated damages. Although some arms companies have not allowed the Syrian authorities to pay liquidated damages for the purpose of long-term development. But it has to be admitted that the Republic's arms dealers must have very close relations with the government. The thugs have long known that the situation will develop to this point.
In March of the year of the outbreak, with the re-establishment of the General Staff of the Syrian Army, Syrian national defense forces gained a new life.
In a sense, Syria's defense system basically copied the Republic's defense system, but only saved some unnecessary parts that exceeded the capabilities of Syrian countries. For example, Syria does not have a sky army or an independent Marine Corps.
In terms of specific organization, the military advisory group took into account the special situation in Syria and did not fully adopt the organizational system of the Republic. Instead, it set up a command with the nature of the theater in accordance with the strategic direction. Mu Yong doubted that the most important thing was the southern theater with Damascus as the center, defending the capital and deterring the Golan Heights as the main task, followed by the northern theater with Latakia as the center, defending the port and threatening Turkey in the north as the main task, and there was also the eastern theater with Hasek as the center to ensure the ground access to Iraq and Iran.
There are different combat troops in each of the three war zones.
In terms of specific administrative management, the Syrian National Defense Forces still adopt the military system. The total strength of Xian Er is 10,000. The main force believes that 3 armored brigades, 6 machine-infantry artillery, and one infantry brigade, equipped with main battle tanks! Jinyu vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, and nearly four vehicles of various types are included; there are 3 kilograms, air defense brigades, and three support brigades, and there is no independent intelligence center in Damascus. Overall, the equipment level of the Syrian Army is not bad, and in terms of main battle equipment. The vehicles introduced from the Republic just now are more important than the main battle tank and the 0-multi-mouth infantry fighting vehicle. The electromagnetic gun system with a cover range of 10,000 meters is the only door-gate electromagnetic gun. Each set of electromagnetic guns is one of the most powerful artillery soldiers in the Middle East. Israel has only met the electromagnetic gun system introduced from the United States. Although each set has an old door.
Electromagnetic guns, but the overall performance is very poor. In addition to occupying a main brigade, the Syrian Army also has a second-tier brigade, and the main combat equipment of these secondary troops is basically free of charge. The Republic is also the main combat equipment that was not destroyed by the Israeli army in the Syrian-Israeli war. In addition to hard power, the Syrian Army also has a very important soft power, that is, there are several retired officers invited from the Republic at all battalions level, and these officers have participated in the Indian War. Of course, these soldiers are already "Syrians", because according to the secret agreement reached between Syria and the Republic, all the republic soldiers who are employed will have Syrian nationality within the contract period. Only after the contract is over will the nationality of the Republic be restored.
Compared with the army, the strength of the Syrian Air Force cannot be underestimated. According to the suggestions of the military adviser, the Syrian Air Force adopted the organizational system of the Republic's Air Force tactical aviation, that is, two organizational systems of combat and management. In peacetime, it is managed in the form of the wing squadron and squadrons. It is believed that the minimum mobilization unit is.
During the war, the war forces were flexibly equipped according to combat needs. Although the Syrian Air Force did not obtain the small and old fighter jets they wanted, after all, for a country with only tens of billions of military spending each year, there was no need to purchase fighter jets with a unit price of up to tens of billions of dollars. However, the Syrian Air Force obtained the air-enhancing small mouth, which was the code name of Syria, not the super meaning. Compared with the small mouth series of fighters of the Republic Air Force, the small mouth specially designed for export attaches more importance to air combat capabilities. After all, for most countries that do not have the ability to buy small! pupil-type air-controlling fighters, when they are unwilling to purchase medium-sized fighters such as Gu, they naturally hope that the light fighters purchased from the Republic have relatively excellent air-controlling combat capabilities.
It is precisely because of this that the Syrian authorities accepted the proposal of the military adviser. At the beginning of the year, they purchased the thug from the Republic Air Force. It will not be delivered until the beginning of the year. Therefore, the main force of the Syrian Air Force is improved. Xiaowan is also provided by the Republic for free. In addition to fighter jets, the Syrian Air Force also attaches great importance to support forces. Not to mention anything else. Syria is the second country in the Middle East to be equipped with large early warning aircraft after Israel. Because in the Syrian-Israeli confrontation, Syria does not have the initiative, and the air force's primary task is to defend air supremacy rather than actively attack, so the Syrian Air Force attaches more importance to air defense operations. The offensive capabilities are relatively weak. This is also the key reason why Syria has to spend a lot of money to introduce electromagnetic gun systems.
Relatively speaking, the Syrian Navy is dispensable.
Another thing that must be paid attention to is Syria's military mobilization capabilities.
Because the Syrian-Israel war has only been in the past few years, the Syrians' sense of crisis has not subsided, so the people are more enthusiastic about joining the army, and the Syrian authorities also attach great importance to the country's war mobilization mechanism.
In a sense, the most valuable thing that the military advisers sent by the Republic did was to help the Syrian authorities establish a more comprehensive military mobilization mechanism. In any case, as a country with a limited population, Syria cannot maintain a large army in peacetime. In fact, the total force of about 10,000 troops has exceeded Syria's actual ability to withstand Syria. Under normal circumstances, the size of the army of a country with a red of 10,000 people should be controlled below 10,000. More than 10,000 will have a negative impact. The problem is that the enemy of Syria has enough military power. Therefore, if you want to defeat the enemy in war, you must pin your hopes on the military mobilization mechanism.
According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Syria can mobilize all regular troops within the time of the outbreak of the war. It can mobilize reserve troops of the same size as the regular troops within one week, mobilize tens of near-blade militias within one month, and complete full-scale war mobilization within three months.
Mu Yong doubted that Syria’s war mobilization ability is not poor.
Strictly speaking, Syria's military strength is not much worse.
The key is how to exert Syria's combat effectiveness.
Chapter completed!