Unified war room & new drones: Syrian rebel commander reveals military doctrine that toppled Assad regime
FirstpostTop military commander of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham revealed that the rebel group began planning the military assault to topple Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s regime a year ago. In his first interview with foreign media, Abu Hassan al-Hamwi, the head of the HTS military wing, said that the group conducted a highly disciplined operation in which a new drone unit was deployed and where there was close coordination between opposition groups around the country. Hamwi noted that since 2019, HTS has been developing a military doctrine that it used to turn fighters coming from “disparate, disorganised opposition and jihadist groups into a disciplined fighting force.” “After the last campaign, during which we lost significant territory, all revolutionary factions realised the critical danger – the fundamental problem was the absence of unified leadership and control over battle,” the 40-year-old military commander said in an interview in Jableh. ‘We studied enemy thoroughly’ In the interview, Hamwi maintained that the HTS and other rebel groups “studied the enemy thoroughly”.
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