American General: Training the Syrian opposition fighters was a complete failure

The head of the US Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, said in an interview with Foreign Policy that only four or five Syrian opposition fighters, whom the United States prepared to fight the Islamic State terrorist organization, are taking part in the hostilities.

According to US Deputy Secretary of Defense Christine Vormuta, around 100-120 fighters are currently training in Turkish training bases. This information shocked the US senators.

“Yes, this is a joke,” said Senator Kelly Ayotte.

"This is just a complete failure," added Senator Jeff Sessions.

General Austin noted that in a few months, about 60 fighters from the so-called moderate Syrian opposition had been trained in Turkey. In July, they were transferred to Syria to fight the Islamic State grouping, but for several days they were defeated by militants of the Dzhebhat al-Nusrah group. More than 41 million dollars was spent on their preparation.

At the end of last year, the US Congress approved the allocation of half a billion dollars for combat training of Syrian opposition fighters. It was assumed that by the end of this year about 5500 people would be prepared to fight the IG, and within three years their number would increase to 15 thousands.

Comments

[gudgeon]

"This is just a complete failure," added Senator Jeff Sessions.

Like all US policies in the Middle East ...

[Bazilevs81]

A flock of sheep led by Barak Baran

[KazaK Bo]

Bazilevs81
A flock of sheep led by Barak Baran

It is understandable! People FOR MONEY DO NOT GO FOR WHAT TO DESTROY IN THE FIRST BATTLE ... BUT FOR ... TO EARN AND ..LIVE ... LIVE WELL !!!
This once again confirms the need to educate patriotism and pride in their country among all citizens of the country ... and not rely only on contract soldiers or mercenaries in matters of strengthening defense capability!
Unfortunately, this is not necessary for our liberal part of the elite! That is why they are so violently weathered ... already from school, education ... replacing it with feelings of materialism ...

[DanSabaka]

and in Ukraine, the Americans also train fighters APU? if with the same efficiency, then I don’t understand why there are so many protests and outrages from the Russian side with this preparation ....

[GDP]

750 000 $ for the training of one soldier and it is planned to spend 100 000 $ on one soldier in the future!

It is not surprising that the poor Syrians disappeared after the first battle, probably the Javelins igil ran to sell :))

Or is it all the easier they are ISIS fighters and they didn’t have it written on their forehead which particular Islamic group they belong to ...

[zeleznijdorojnik]

Most likely they just washed off to Europe - refugees.

[sherp2015]

Quote: Bazilevs81

led by barak ram

How? Barack Bananas?

[b0bi]

Abram's farm

[b0bi]

Abram's farm

[hedgehog in the fog]

God damn it, $ 41 million for 60 ragged people, they’re cutting a damn for themselves, our bureaucrats nervously smoke aside ..

[Engineer]

Just the whole US policy on BV is very effective. Everything that goes on in the US’s hands. It is strange that you do not understand this.

[Mareman Vasilich]

Correct comrade. If the US policy on BV failed, then there was no war in Syria.

[GRAY]

Quote: Engineer

Just the whole US policy on BV is very effective. Everything that goes on in the US’s hands. It is strange that you do not understand this.

If we consider it in the current period of time, then yes. However, they had good chances, in the future, to lose their influence in the Middle East.
American politics makes me associate with a duck in a swamp: the tail will pull out and the beak will bog down; the beak will pull out - the tail will bog down.

[little girl15]

In the second half of the last century, the Americans worked much better. And nowadays, whatever they do, everything turns out guano.

[SRC P-15]

American General: Training the Syrian opposition fighters was a complete failure

They diligently hang noodles on our ears. America does not need opposition to fight ISIS, so they just pretend that they are training fighters against Islamists. ISIS is their brainchild, not for that they raised it, so that later they could create opposition in the form of "opposition fighters". Everything is going according to plan - IS is conquering new territories, and new waves of refugees are rushing to Europe.

[siberalt]

It seems that the US task is to draw Russia into Syria like Afghanistan. But there were Vietnam and Korea. Now Assad would have air defense systems and MLRS, and Russia would have an anti-American coalition.

[mosquito]

Ani-ISIS-ovskaya, you wanted to say :)

[Darwin]

Saw the loot is not sickly, the soldiers must be gold.

[Corsair]

Quote: Darwin

Saw the loot is not sickly, the soldiers must be gold.

it seems that each fighter was given a minitank or are they already full-length Iron People riveting on the conveyor belt ...

[vodolaz]

They trained the Iraqi army, only they stupidly fled and threw all the equipment.

[oleg-gr]

Americans "master" the budget well and correctly. The result is deplorable, but it is not so important.

[captain]

The Americans were let down by ignorance of the mentality of the Arabs. They operate according to old English patterns. And time has sunk into summer.

[Barboskin]

Well, they say corruption is only ours. Ours would have prepared a full-blooded regiment for forty lyamov and would have been generously sawed off to ourselves. And for half a lard, if the IG had not been dispersed, then they would have created problems for sure.

[Decathlon]

"... but for three years ..."
And, within three years, there will be nobody to cook! And even better - no one ...

[nivander]

it's America, everything is cool and beautiful, but at least one wheel is always flat

[Andryukha G]

An entire American general admitted that the United States is preparing militants to kill civilians, this is "overseas democracy in action" ... in Syria and ... in Ukraine.

[Meh-forester]

American General: Training the Syrian opposition fighters was a complete failure

In Iraq - failure, in Afghanistan - failure, and here in Syria - failure. I hope the next one will be Ukraine.

General Austin noted that in a few months, about 60 fighters from the so-called moderate Syrian opposition had been trained in Turkey. In July, they were transferred to Syria to fight the Islamic State grouping, but for several days they were defeated by militants of the Dzhebhat al-Nusrah group. More than 41 million dollars was spent on their preparation.

Judging by the number of funds prepared and spent on this, these are:
- Super duper special forces - well, then the result of their training speaks about the level of American instructors.
- the command staff, which was obliged to organize a mass partisan movement and then the result speaks of the FULLEST misunderstanding of the American specialists in the situation in Syria and ways to solve the tasks assigned to them, as well as the non-competence of their intelligence agencies.

[Voha_krim]

Quote: Meh-forester

In Iraq - failure, in Afghanistan - failure, and here in Syria - failure.

There’s a cliff in Georgia! And where was the failure? As if for the first time they hear

[as150505]

41 million dollars to train 60 fighters? Which of them prepared the terminators? Someone was not sickly rubbing money.

[pvv113]

Their preparation took more than 41 million dollars.

A good way to cut money.

[sinukvl]

In Iraq, army training ended in complete failure, in Ukraine also complete failure, in Syria again the same thing. Conclusion: these are not students so stupid, they are teachers so Dumb!

[screw cutter]

You need to learn from the winners, at least from the Vietnamese, but how many wars did the Americans win?

[rotmistr60]

Failure after failure, and they rested on Assad with enviable persistence. They see that this is harmful, but the "exclusiveness" and ambition of the "world hegemon" do not allow working back.

[Mountain shooter]

40 lyamy greens to prepare a company? It is interesting (of course, hypothetically) if you take our GRU special forces to the parade ground and say - guys, here are 40 lyamas of greenery, you need to thin out the bearded, say, in Palmyra. Wow, dear mom. I think those who would survive would be sought on the border with Iraq.
Unexpectedly. Unprofessional. I thought about the army of mattress much better. Although after their exploits in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was slightly disappointed.

[RiverVV]

So judging by the number of flights of our ships to Syria, this has already been done. Of course, not GRU special forces were hired. Ordinary motorized infantry cost less.

[japs]

I really don’t think that our leadership of the Council of Counselors is such truncheons as the Americans. Do we need another afghan?

[vinc]

Yes, for forty greens of greens, what you describe will be done by grannies from any market in our country.

[V.ic]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

40 lyamy greens to prepare a company?

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Unexpectedly. Unprofessional. I thought about the army of mattress much better

You shouldn't be like that. Philip Amintovich, the pope of Alexander the Great, said: "A donkey loaded with gold will take any fortress." In 1989-1990 they stupidly bought our "top" and the "great-mighty" quickly split into a number of bandustans. That's just a bummer with Russia so far.

[Mikhail3]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Wow, dear mom. I think those who would survive would be sought on the border with Iraq.

If the children still have the opportunity to finance purchases of what they need in European markets, even if directly from this amount, then Palmira’s business will not be limited. And there will be silence on the border with Iraq, none of the bandits will run there ...

[Gormenghast]

Cool. USA prepared a 5 fighters.

What power! What a scope! Each fighter is more expensive than the F-35 in terms of money consumption and weight of the "fighter".

[Vitaly Anisimov]

Quote: Gormengast

Cool. USA prepared a 5 fighters.

What power! What a scope! Each fighter is more expensive than the F-35 in terms of money consumption and weight of the "fighter".

Cyborgs probably ...?))))))

[RiverVV]

Yes ... The amount surprised of course. For more than 650.000 US rubles for the training of one soldier. Maybe it was easier for the Americans to immediately buy wholesale ISIS militants and quietly and peacefully put them in concentration camps? For such grandmas it was possible to agree.

[wasjasibirjac]

Do you believe in this ??? it seems to me that 41 green lemons have been invested in training just 5500 "moderate oppositionists" exactly those 60 who went to the front and there are ALL "moderate oppositionists" who do not like Assad, but even more they do not like ISIS, with whom or with whose ally they are and clashed. and died. Almost all. the question is different - where are 5440 other people trained by the USA. so they were transferred to ISIS and now on the side of the "immoderate opposition" "aalah soldiers" trained according to the best American methods will fight. is it possible?

[Vitaly Anisimov]

A bit of humor ... but essentially so!

[afrikanez]

Yes, all that’s not right with you and that’s not so, so what x .. to undertake what you can’t do. Mutt striped

[Anchonsha]

Everything was gone, BEF, American pennies flew away to nowhere. ... A vile country, a black White Baboon from the White House with idiots McCain, look around, your country has become a stronghold of terrorists around the world. This will not be in vain for your crappy country, the Ishilovites will find a way to hit harder at the innocent American common people.

[Corsair0304]

Quote: RiverVV

650.000 American rubles for the training of one soldier.

For some reason I took the calculator ....
If our instructors were given 42 million 250 thousand rubles (ours, wood, at today's rate) for the preparation of freshly arrived green young meat (one piece) - what would be the outcome? Superman nervously smokes on the sidelines, Batman fights hysterically from a sense of inferiority, Spiderman hanged himself on his own web, because ours for that kind of money would jump higher and further without any cobwebs and cowards from above ....

[Sakhalin.]

"Complete failure"? As VVP said, what they will not undertake is Libya.

[raid14]

The United States is cutting the military budget for preparing cannon fodder ahead of the rest.
Thoughts aloud, 60 raccoons were killed to train only one "moderate" terrorist (683.330 of which were destroyed shortly after crossing the Syrian border).

[atamankko]

Plus to the failures and hatred of nations,
experienced American "democracy".

[kil 31]

Must Crankset Suspended to report. He promised for a small fraction, to teach dill to dig trenches for shooting standing from a horse. For such loot, he will teach all Arabs, the Persians and the children of Moses will be able to enroll in his courses.

[Ribald]

Here is a cut. Good! 60 snouts 41 million.

[31rus]

Dear, all these statements are just a maneuver, distracting by privacy, the main problem is ISIS and other radical movements and those who support them, the issue of Syria is very far from being resolved, and this statement will lead to the United States finding other methods and artists

[shinobi]

The Americans are amusing. low results. They rely on the superiority in weapons, which constantly fails them, since the number still does not solve anything, and the quality is doubtful. And their main misconception is that everything can be bought.

[lukke]

"It took more than $ 41 million to prepare them."
60 fighters ?! in a year? for 41 lam? Yes, we have an annual budget of all CSP less)))) but about efficiency I don’t even stutter
American generals - world champions in cutting budget funds!

[vvp2412]

Here it is quality sawing loot! :)

[roskot]

Little hands warmed not sickly.

[roskot]

We wanted Rimbaud, but it turned out as always.

[slizhov]

and who thought otherwise ..?

[vladimirw]

a common thing, for ov. they have failures around

[Polite Moose]

"General Austin noted that about 60 fighters of the so-called moderate Syrian opposition were trained in Turkey in a few months. In July they were sent to Syria to fight the Islamic State group, but within a few days they were defeated by militants of the Jabhat al- Nusra. ”On their preparation gone over $ 41 million. "

The key word here is "gone"! Warriors turned out - what they turned out, but more than $ 41 million "went away".
These trained supermen will still die in Syria, and they will come in handy at home. And, most importantly, the ends in the water, or rather in the sand.

[4ekist]

And denyuzhki something bye ....

[Shilochnik]

What if they trained instructors? Then everything falls into place, the guys learned, got weapons for a couple of boxes, and rushed to train their homies from ISIS ..... Type escaped .... :)))))

[Garris199]

How not to fail when you train those who are not.

[provincial]

And where did they have success in training military personnel from other countries? In Yemen, in Iraq, in Ukraine, tell me.

[denk20]

An army that has not won a single land war is preparing someone there? How would this ask a question about corruption, theft in the US Armed Forces? :)

[IAlex]

Actually, they killed England and Mexico ...

[kagorta]

There was no one in preparation, there was only a payroll. And signatures with crosses. Oh sorry crescents.

[IAlex]

Like they gave the blacks humanitarian aid, and when they gave it, it rained and it turned out that the blacks were white ISIS soldiers ...