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US replaying Vietnam War strategy in Syria: Analyst

“The recent reports that the US is increasing its special forces numbers in Syria should not be a surprise,” says US counter-terrorism analyst Scott Bennet.

The United States is deploying troops to Syria on the pattern it used during the 1954-1975 Vietnam War, says Scott Bennet, an American counter-terrorism expert and political analyst.

US officials recently told the Reuters news agency that Washington is planning to significantly increase the number of US special forces deployed to Syria.

“The recent reports that the US is increasing its special forces numbers in Syria should not be a surprise,” said Bennet, a former US army psychological warfare officer.

“It’s a standard pattern of an operational development which the US has followed since Vietnam, and in the Vietnam conflict of course it sent advisers that quickly turned into entire army full battalions and brigades which lasted over ten/fifteen years, and that was the Vietnam conflict,” Bennet told Press TV on Saturday.

“So this is how the US follows its conflict management, or war losing if you will, in some of these protracted efforts that are meaningless. It sends advisers and then it expands eventually over a five year period into a full-scale war,” he added.  

“So it is very unnerving on a variety of levels, because mainly the truth is that the US has been waging war since 2014 in Syria, and it has been failing and losing on every term, not because the men are ill-equipped or ill-trained but because Special Forces or Marines joining the US soldiers are incapable but because the leadership at the highest level… and their puppet masters, the Obama administration politicians, and their congressional armed services committees are full of weaklings and castrated idiots, who have no idea how to run a war, who have no idea about the [Takfiri] culture of the terrorists that are fighting along ISIS,” Bennet stated, referring to  the Daesh terrorist group.

Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria.

Since March 2011, the United States and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been conducting a proxy war against Syria.

The years-long conflict has left more than 470,000 Syrians dead and half of the country’s population of about 23 million displaced within or beyond the Arab country’s borders.

Washington has also deployed dozens of special forces to eastern Syria in what it claims is an effort to shore up local militant groups against Daesh.

In recent months, the Syrian army, backed by the Russian air power, has been making major gains against Takfiri groups, recapturing several strategic areas from their grip, particularly in the strategic northern province of Aleppo.

A temporary truce agreement engineered by Russia and the United States, which came into force across Syria on February 27, has been holding despite minor reports of violations by the warring sides.


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