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My big report is finally out: examining the collapse of the #SAA &, more interestingly, the attempts at rebuilding. The last half of the report has detailed unit structures for EVERY SAA CORPS as its stands in 2019https://www.mei.edu/publications/lion-and-eagle-syrian-arab-armys-destruction-and-rebirth …
I made infographs based on pro-regime social media posts linking various units to each other w/ blanks filled in through a year long interview of a great Syrian source. These structures & affiliations should be viewed as working guides, as the #SAA is still in a transitory period
So, if anyone has additional information please share. That being said, here is the #SAA as of 2019, including all units w/ #Russia|n training (so far)pic.twitter.com/IbXFU95q7b
I also have a (somewhat rough) deployment history of most original #SAA brigades from 2016-2019. It takes a minute to read the charts but you really get a feel for why certain units have been switched around & you can see the changing geographic focus of the regime each year.pic.twitter.com/PQnM7Q7WBA
The report ends w/ profiles of each Division + their structure, including battalions when I could find them. Many battalions have unknown brigade associations unfortunately, but hopefully others can update this in the future.pic.twitter.com/dN9JWY5EtZ
I want to thank @delfoo for spending countless hours helping me make sense of this and assisting in the research, as well as @hrcberkeley for hosting me while I worked on this. And of course, Joseph Holliday whose 2013 @TheStudyofWar reports were incredibly important.
Incredible work...
Thank you Mathieu, please let me know if you have more to add!
Yes. Stupid question : do you speak French ?
No, sorry. Can try google translate though.
How to you find out the units structure? Do you use like OSINT or twitter?
All through Facebook. Things like martyrdom reports where they might say "the martyr is from the salaries of the 5th Division / 112th Brigade".
Couldn't you have waited to publish until after my University exam? Now I'll just HAVE to read this instead!!
Excellent!
Fascinating report. It confirms impressions of degraded SAA capability as demonstrated in the shortcomings of the recent offensive around Hama and Idlib, but provides important explanation and context. Many thanks.
You are a god. 
Oh yeah everyone has been waiting on pins n needles for this report from such an esteemed expert as yourself.
This guy said the collapse of the SAA man it’s been eight years of war fighting thousands of jihad assume all over the world if they did collapse know wouldn’t be bad after eight years I don’t need to Germany three years
Another foreigner making money off Syria. Books, conferences, tv punditry...u name it. Shameless.
Hahahaha 
What is this a middle is production who is the star of this fucking story because you know you got a lot of time to write shit
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