The War Nerd: Doing the math on Alawite casualty numbers

The Sunday Telegraph said recently that Assad's Syrian Arab Army (SAA) will collapse soon, because one-third of Syrian Alawite "males of military age" have already died fighting the Sunni. Lack of manpower, the theory goes, will doom the Alawites. There's no denying that Assad's forces have been looking weak lately. Islamic State has been making gains against them in the southeast, taking the only road connecting […]

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