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Contents 1 Russia Presence 2 Defensive weapons 3 Merge of Syrian Air Force proposed 4 Good Article 5 Syria and Weapons of Mass Destruction 6 No. 7 STOP 8 POV Issue

[edit] Russia Presence

It should be updated with russia new military and intellegence support for Syria and a New naval base there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mescovic (talk • contribs) 06:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Defensive weapons

I'm not sure what this sentence means: "In addition, Syria is trying to develop defensive weapons to limit the Israeli abilities to attack it." It's not clear what a "defensive weapon" is. A source would be helpful. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 22:39, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Yep, I agree with SlimVirgin. Expression "defensive weapon" seems to be at least suspicious. --83.240.4.195 12:13, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Jara

Syrian forces acquire nuclear missiles and a new fleet of 400 f-16s via pakistan. War on syria would constitute self made genocide for the zionist israelis

"Defnsive Weapons" as fast deploying minefields, burried T55 tanks as fire-posts, fortification, AA missile arrays and other such weapons intended to deter Israel form further aggression against Syria, as the Doctrine of the Syrian Arab Army suggests strongly that undertaking offensive action against Israel to return the Quneytra Province (Golan Heights to Israel) would not be effective, or even feasable use of it's army (And quite reasonable of them, taking the current technical gap between the aging equipment of the SyAA and the IDF). The source for this is, woefully, confidential.

Also of the Chemical Weapons, in 1973 stockpiles of Cehm Shells for 100mm tank cannons and 130mm Artillery caanons was captured during the Yom Kipur War by Israel on the outskirts of Damascus, since then it's mostly assumed that they still have some of it. Well, it has legs as much as it had in the Iraq case, but we aren't talking about the sanest and most humane regiemes on Earth. Better safe then sorry.

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[edit] Merge of Syrian Air Force proposed

Syrian Army has now been merged into this page as suggested 2005-12-15 and unopposed.
It is now suggested that Syrian Air Force should likewise be merged.
Boson 21:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Done.Boson 17:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

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Middle East

[edit] Good Article

This is a good article, well-written.

[edit] Syria and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Why doesn't this article mention Syria's development of chemical and biological weapons? Who removed it? I'm putting it back.

[edit] No.

Find a credible source that says Syria is developing chemical and biological weapons and no one will have an issue with it.

[edit] STOP

Yeah um, wanna stop editing that 'militant and terrorists' part, it has already been discussed as a POV issue.

Where?Ingsoc 09:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

It is POV to call them terrorist organizations, as that is simply an opinion. Asabbagh 09:54, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV Issue

Would someone like to correct this howler: "Syria is buying additional weapons to either counter Israel's abilities to attack it or more likely as preparation to take back the Golan Heights at some point in the future." First, there is absolutely no need to interject uninformed predictions about Syrian foreign policy in an article about Syria's military. Second, what evidence there is points the other way -- to Syria's build-up as a defensive, deterring force. This is just anti-Arab POV without a shred of justification for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.20.140.12 (talk) 01:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)