By Vestnik Kavkaza
Today U.S. President Barack Obama plans to address the nation on the Syrian problem, an issue which splits not only the American society, but also Europe. Russian military and civil experts predict developments in Syria during and after possible American intervention.
“The Americans will strike left and right,” Mikhail Khodarenok, editor-in-chief of the journal "Aerospace Defense", thinks “The resistance, of which the military of the Syrian Arab Republic is capable, will be minimal. The U.S. armed forces are so superior in conventional weapons over the Syrian Arab Republic and even the Russian Federation, that it would not be a war, it would be a massacre.”
Speaking about American superiority, Khodarenok noted the exceptional resources in all types of intelligence. “This applies to space intelligence, radio reconnaissance, radio technologies, optoelectronic intelligence, etc. That is, they will know perfectly well who, what, and where is doing what - the top leadership of Syria and the Syrian army units.”
Khodarenok highlighted the US's huge superiority in conventional weapons. “I would like to talk not only about the "Tomahawk". It must be said that there are sea-based cruise missiles and air-launched cruise missiles, which the strategic bombers B-52 will be equipped with, they will certainly be involved in the conflict from an air base in the UK, most likely Fairford and from the air base in Diego Garcia. In addition, there is such a concept as "air attack." This spectrum in the U.S. Air Force is quite wide. This is anti-radiation missiles and bunker busters.”
According to Khodarenok, the U.S. Air Force have a huge advantage in electronic warfare, they even called it radio - electronic war: “All available forces and means of radar and radio-technical equipments of the Syrian army will be suppressed. And to expect any organized resistance by means of air attack in these conditions is not realistic.
"There is a concept of 'power spectral density of interference.' That is, they will put in place such interference that they will disrupt the entire system of radio-location of the Syrian military intelligence and any responses will simply be impossible.”
The head of the Center of analysis of strategies and technologies, Ruslan Pukhov, spoke about the possible consequences of the war: “Whatever will be a result of developments in Syria, they will have very negative consequences for the whole world. The U.S. after the Caribbean Crisis, spent more than 50 years trying to reduce the threat of a nuclear war, make countries reject nuclear weapon and other weapons of mass destruction. Sometimes they succeeded, like in South Africa; sometimes they didn’t succeed, like with India and Pakistan. However, when we saw attacks on the independent state of Yugoslavia in 1999, intervention in Iraq in 2003, the destruction of Libya, it became clear that Syria is only a ring in this chain. If aggression against Syria takes place and the power changes, for all countries in the world, which provide independent policy, even not anti-American, it will be clear that they can suffer from this as well. The only opportunity to hold the aggression is following the North Korean course – getting a nuclear bomb and its delivery vehicle.”
According to Pukhov, “with one hand the Americans improve the regime of nuclear non-proliferation, but with the other they show that the only opportunity to avoid forced change is weapons if mass destruction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran is the only state in the world which demonstrates a logical system of values which are absolutely different from values of the Western world. Russia didn’t offer the world any alternative model of a socio-political structure, while Iran did. For some countries the model is unacceptable, but for others it is attractive. Not everybody wants to live in Disneyland, some people want to live in a different world. I think it annoys the Americans very much. They want to destroy alternative cultures, and sooner or later they will attack Iran, I think.”
