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Watch: Engaging ‘ISIS’ Turkish Special Forces and FSA SOF adapt in a combined arms fight

Turkish SOF brandishing a Heckler & Koch 416-A5. Via Twitter

Free Syrian Army SOF, ‘Northern Thunder’ lays down suppressing fire as Turkish Special Forces execute a battlefield improvisation in order to recover a disabled medical vehicle, near Northern Aleppo.

Turkish SOF swiftly adapts, and uses an FNSS ACV-15 (modified M113), Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle to recover a damaged Turkish Medical M113, Armored Personnel Ambulance.

Turkish SOF identified by location and known Turkish Special Forces special issue and current use of Ops-Core Advanced Helmet Systems and the Heckler & Koch 416-A5 alongside, Northern Thunder FSA Special Forces –

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Turkish SOF brandishing a Heckler & Koch 416-A5. Via Twitter

Free Syrian Army SOF, ‘Northern Thunder’ lays down suppressing fire as Turkish Special Forces execute a battlefield improvisation in order to recover a disabled medical vehicle, near Northern Aleppo.

Turkish SOF swiftly adapts, and uses an FNSS ACV-15 (modified M113), Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle to recover a damaged Turkish Medical M113, Armored Personnel Ambulance.

Turkish SOF identified by location and known Turkish Special Forces special issue and current use of Ops-Core Advanced Helmet Systems and the Heckler & Koch 416-A5 alongside, Northern Thunder FSA Special Forces –

All while under fire from Daesh, also know as the Islamic State; that is, if your respect terrorist enough to recognize their sovereignty . . . Reference, the argument and history presented in my 2015 works, Know Your Enemy: Daesh, the Islamic State (Pt. 1), and Know Your Enemy: Daesh, the Islamic State (Pt. 2).

Turkish SOF and FSA N. Thunder SOF recovering disabled Turkish M113 Armored Personnel Carrier pic.twitter.com/QoHVgtPlVu


These videos are only a part of the ongoing Turkish operation, Euphrates Shield that is assaulting Daesh, as well as rebel and Kurdish position across Northern Syria.

I apologize in advance for the music . . .  Damnit Jim, I’m a writer, not a DJ.

 


Turkey is the latest player to enter the chaotic battlespace that is Syria. They join a fragmented fight represent by a U.S. led coalition, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR), the Russian, Syrian, Iranian, and recent addition of China, as well as a grouping of what is now hundreds of guerrillas, groupings, jihadists, militias, rebels, terrorists, and so forth. All contained, under what is now – a four front war.

 

 

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is an American. He served eleven years for God and Country with the illustrious Airborne Combat Engineers and dedicated four of those years traveling to wonderful faraway lands where he dug around in the dirt looking for bombs. After much soul searching, he decided to return to academia. There he obtained two additional university degrees, and he is now pursuing a fourth - because university

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