DEFENSE NEWS
Russian Bear Supplants American Eagle in Syria, Beyond
by Barbara Opall-Rome
September 27, 2015

American failure to militate against a Syrian regime deploying chemical weapons, barrel bombs and creating a deluge of refugees has all but paved the way for Moscow to reassert a Soviet-like presence in the war-wracked country and the warm Mediterranean waters beyond. That, in a nutshell, is the widely held assessment of Israeli policymakers and experts here, who blame Washington for creating yet another layer of complexity in Israel’s operations against Hezbollah, the Tehran-sponsored Lebanese Shiite organization battling on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. READ MORE