Syrian Military Now Employing Tactics Of Massive Bombardment Before Launching A Ground Attack

In Syria's Civil War, Regime Plays By 'Qusair Rules' Against Rebels -- Space War/UPI

Syrian government forces are pounding rebel-held districts of the strategic central city of Homs with air strikes and artillery, using what have become known as "Qusair rules" after the bulldozer tactics that produced a seminal victory for the regime in storming the rebels' western stronghold of Qusair in May.

Government troops used relentless bombardment of Qusair, which controlled vital supply routes in western Syria, to batter the city for two weeks before sending in a ground force largely made up of fighters from Hezbollah, the regime's Lebanese ally, battle-hardened by years of fighting Israel, into the ruins to wipe out the rebel defenders.

Hezbollah, like Syria and strategic ally of Iran, took heavy casualties in the fierce house-to-house fighting in Qusair, but finally crushed the rebels after three weeks of fighting to cut off the rebels' vital supply lines from neighboring Lebanon.

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My Comment: Destroying a city to ensure a battlefield victory is a tactic that has been used throughout history .... and it appears that the Syrian regime now has no problem in applying this method.