Now your western border looks fine and the northwest and southwest as well. Your northern border looks okay as long as you and the Turks get along. But between At-Tanf and Deir ez-Zur you got nothing?
See that area between Bosra going northeast to Mari? That's a problem. You got no coverage, nothing. You really need to fix that. I am guessing that river is fresh water so why is more not there? You have left Damascus open to less then a 70 km attack from Jordan and about what 100 from Iraq? That border NEEDS to be fixed and NOW.
Okay here is a semi current battle map.
I THINK you need to draw a line between Bosra in the south and Deiz ez-Zur in the northeast and hold it. I would guess at this point At-Tanf is no longer under control. The arms appear to be coming in from that area rather steady. At least enough they map it.
2/5ths of the "people are coming in from Turkey via Aleppo so you need to re-take that area as quickly as possible. Then one thing I can't quite understand is another 2/5ths are coming in from the west through your ports.
How the hell are they doing that? Are they coming in via Cypress? Do you not have a Navy? Okay force placement...
Your country is the RED and the Kurds are the yellow and you are fighting the Green. So the majority of guns are coming from your southeast and being funneled to the southwest. I would THINK in order to supply guns FROM Iraq to the north they would be shipping them by river. You NEED to take that river.
In the northwest corner I would GUESS the guns are coming in FROM Cypress and in the southwest corner Lebanon.
At first, you need to know that I am a German. So Syria is not my country. However, as human being, I feel with the Syrians as if they were my countrymen.
Secondly, the dynamic of this war is different from other wars. There are plenty of frontiers in this war. There is no taking over the borders and keeping them under control forever. And there is no massive offensive without leaving other locations at risk. The manpower of the Syrian army is limited and it could not secure the whole Jordanian border without weakening other locations. Terrorists are sneaking into towns over time, creating tunnels and arms depots. Suddenly, a new frontier appears. Or terrorists try to overrun Syrian defenses by sheer manpower. They leave explosives everywhere and detonate buildings when army soldiers enter them. They use suicide attacks and human shields. Capturing a town or city from terrorists is hard, hard work and takes time according to the terrorist´s number and resistance. So bombing and shelling terrorists is an important part of the war on terror. They have western law and opinion makers at their side. While terrorists mine whole towns, kill and behead people, rape people, torture people and loot everything, you are reading about fantasy "barrelbombs" of the "regime" allegedly targeting civilians 24h a day in the medias, as if the Syrian forces would not have better things to do or would kill for fun if have not.
When terrorists entered Idlib, the army decided to not to make it a battlefield. Residents and refugees live in government controlled cities, thus they cannot be bombed and a city full of civilians is the best battlefield for terrorists.
