The Pentagon’s Cold Feet On Syria -- Max Boot, Washington Post
Max Boot is a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present,” due out in January.
It’s easy to tell when the Pentagon is opposed to a military intervention. That’s when we hear leaks saying how difficult such action would be. We heard them in the 1990s concerning Bosnia and Kosovo, we heard them last year over Libya, and we are hearing them now about Syria.
News reports cite unnamed “senior defense officials” saying that Syria has a sophisticated air-defense system and a 330,000-man army that would be hard to defeat; that we don’t know enough to arm a Syrian opposition that lacks effective, unified leadership; that U.S. intervention could plunge Syria into civil war and embroil us in a “proxy war” against Iran and possibly Russia; and that international support is lacking for any move.
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My Comment: A good dissection from Max Boot on why the Pentagon does not want to get involved in Syria's civil war.
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