In the face of the asymmetrical strikes of the multinational forces, the situation of the civil war in the Middle East has also undergone complete and complete changes.

"Only by seizing the sky can we plot the earth" is a military proverb that is a truth in the eyes of many people and has been proven by many local wars.

However, in the midst of a conflict between the two warring sides, however, the Syrian Liberal Party has found that something is wrong, despite having one of the largest air forces in the Middle East and a sizable number of YF-23 "Ghost" fighters, they are unable to intercept the overwhelming array of precision-guided munitions, let alone counterattack the U.S. Navy fleet cruising beyond the coastline.

In a local war under modern technological conditions, although the mode of operation is different from that of the past, in the face of the enemy's air threat, the defending side still needs to establish a "three-in-one" air defense system: In this, the "three" refers to air defense fighters, ground-to-air missiles, and antiaircraft guns, and the "one" refers to the unified operation of the air defense command system, and only by integrating the front-line weapons and equipment into the integrated air defense network can we resist the air threat of the attackers to the greatest extent -- in addition, if the defending side is strong enough, it can take the initiative to attack, to wipe out the opponent's aerial platform on the ground, of course, is the best.

In the light of this air defense principle, the Syrian Liberal Party, which is entrenched in Aleppo, has to say that its understanding of modern warfare is still a little superficial, or it is completely misunderstood.

Since the outbreak of the civil war, the Damascus regime and the Iraqi New Party have always been their opponents, and through a series of air pressures, they have almost eliminated SRAF and achieved complete air supremacy in Syria, and the Liberal Party has also fought vigorously on the ground. This creates a delusion in the top echelons of the Liberal Party, including Abdul Rahman. It seems that as long as a sufficiently powerful fighter unit is mastered. You can seize the initiative on the battlefield, whether it is a large-scale attack, clear the opponent's air force, or fly directly over the enemy's head to throw bombs, you can do what you want; Later, the ALSA's armed intervention became more and more intense, and the FSA, who was severely frustrated in the competition, went all the way to the black, and invested all its resources in the expansion and training of fighter units.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking. However, the FSA, which blindly pursued air supremacy and neglected how to use it, did not realize that the situation was very bad until the multinational force authorized by the Security Council began to intervene by force, and the FSA, which lacked any means of long-range attack.

Before the start of the combat operation, the Security Council had publicly released the operational action plan, and the SRAF, which had suffered a great loss of strength, was already dormant, and simply fully cooperated with the requirements of the delimitation of the "air identification zone", and did not appear in the Syrian sky at all; The ALSA, which was originally active in enforcing the law, is now also involved in the unified operations of the multinational force, and warplanes only fly near Syria's southern border to ensure that any Liberal fighters who attempt to cross the border are intercepted.

So. In the cold and dry Syrian sky, for a while, there were only FSA fighters flying back and forth. These fighters seem to be majestic, but in fact, they do not play much role in the progress of the battle.

The Liberal Party's air force, which did not encounter a few effective interceptions, let alone counterattacks, flaunted its might over Syria with some sense of superiority at first, but reports of air raid losses from the ground continued. Under the noses of these fighters painted with crescent moons, all kinds of long-range munitions from the eastern Mediterranean were poured into the rebel-held areas almost incessantly, striking at the assembly areas, command and communication centers, radar stations, power grid nodes and transportation hubs of the Liberal armed forces, and soon severely weakened the rebels' ability to continue fighting.

The rebel regime in Aleppo is anxious as smoke rises on the ground, but an air defense network covering the entire territory of occupied Syria cannot be built lightly, and a large number of GCI-guided fighter jets alone cannot counter the US naval fleet in the Mediterranean.

Not only that, after a series of precision strikes and a large amount of ammunition were poured, after coordination with the ALSA side and the demarcation of their respective engagement areas, groups of fighter jets from the US aircraft carrier and surrounding bases also began to appear in the skies over Syria.

Passing through the Israeli airspace from the wall, the attacking U.S. Navy fighter formation soon collided head-on with the irascible FSA.

Since the truce, it has been fighting hard, and it was originally thought that it had trained a strong force and could finally meet the challenge of ALSA head-on, but it was really met with a stack of exclamations by the US military, and the FSA "Ghost" fleet, which lacked systematic cooperation, suffered heavy losses in front of the fighter interception line composed of "Silent Cats", not only the battle damage was very staggering, but it was even driven out of the sky of western Syria for a time.

The battle in the sky intensified, and the fighting on the ground was also raging, and the Damascus regime, which had completed the adjustment of equipment and the training of personnel during the truce, launched a new round of ground offensive soon after the New Year; As a result of the air strikes of the multinational forces, the combat effectiveness of the Syrian rebels in front of them was severely reduced, and the armored forward of the Syrian Revolutionary Guard soon advanced northward, and together with other ground forces, faintly formed a half-moon encirclement of Aleppo, the seat of the rebel regime.

Syria, which is not a large country, has only a small coastline, and the situation in neighboring countries is not complicated, and the northern area occupied by the rebels is only bordered by Turkey and Iraq.

In previous Security Council discussions, due to the rapid deterioration of the situation in the Middle East and some compromises reached with the three major powers, the support of the old Europe for the Syrian rebels has suddenly become much smaller, and only Turkey, which has evil intentions, is still providing assistance to the rebels, hoping to maintain the divided status quo in Syria, or to preserve a buffer zone in the east-west direction, and to shield the influence of the Damaz reform party outside the national border.

This kind of idea seems to be quite beautiful, but combined with the analysis of the current form, there is no basis for realization.

While the multinational forces were carrying out large-scale air strikes from the west and using brutal parallel advance tactics to clear FSA fighters in batches, the eastern side of the Middle East civil war battlefield was a completely different scene.

Unlike the Syrian Liberal Party, which has led to a civil war and is of strange strength, the Liberal Party, which has been in power in Iraq for many years, has not made much progress despite its painstaking operations in the Middle East for many years.

The reason for this is that there must be a lot of geopolitical factors, such as the not very large Republic of Iraq, which is surrounded by pro-American Saudi Arabia to the south, Iran, which is inclined to the alliance of Eastern countries to the east and north, and Syria, which is ruled by the new party, to the west, which is almost completely surrounded in a corner of the Persian Gulf; In this case, as the so-called "geopolitical decision", since there is no backer around, the Baghdad regime is not as crazy as the fearless Syrian rebels, but the dictator's mind is still there, but the ambitions are not so easy to rein, and after the New Year, the war with the Mosul regime again, and with it, patches of long-range fire coverage soon descended on the head of the Baghdad regime.

The air strikes from the east are not the same as those against the Syrian Liberal Party, and Iran, which directly borders Iraq, has become an important forward firepower position for the multinational forces, and the front-line troops participating in the fighting do not even need to use air power.

Since the start of the air raids, day and night, air-to-air weapons with bright tails or thin traces of smoke have frequently appeared over the two river basins, exploding brilliant fireworks on important targets in Iraq. On the night of the start of the air raids, the frightened public saw dragons of smoke and fire flying in the sky, and after the loud explosion, the huge square building had been reduced to a large fragment of ruins.

While the Ministry of Defense was in ruins, the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, which was not far away, was also hit by an air strike, and did not repeat the good fortune of the last Iraq war; Unlike the intentions of the previous war, there is no need for the major powers that have lost interest in oil to deliberately keep this sector, but to destroy it directly, but to severely attack the Baghdad regime's crude oil production system, so there is no need to have any scruples about air strikes.

At the same time, the fleet of the Eastern Nations Alliance in the Persian Gulf also began to move, sending fighter formations into the rather vast "Iraqi Air Identification Zone" every day to carry out tasks in accordance with the pre-demarcated operational airspace.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the multinational forces, unlike the imposing Aleppo regime, the besieged regime in Baghdad soon realized that it had no chance of victory, and after an initial day or two of stubborn resistance, it basically gave up air supremacy in the southern part of the country.

When the crisis came, after a period of habitual petty calculations, the Liberal regime decided that the situation was irretrievable, and that the immediate priority now was not to confront a powerful multinational force, but to attack the "rebels" in Mosul in the north with all their might, and to try to seize as much territory as possible occupied by the new party before the ceasefire.

During a diplomatic mediation before and after the New Year, the international community put forward the idea of resolving the Iraq issue, treating the Baghdad regime, which still occupies a seat in the United Nations, with the Mosul regime in the north, on an equal footing, in other words, preparing to promote the division of Iraq. This solution, with obvious traces of manipulation by the great powers, is the only feasible way to solve the problem at the moment, and the Liberals are well aware of it. (To be continued......)