@ParadiggaEy, echt nicht dein Ernst, oder?
Bauern und Kinder, und ein paar wenige kampferfahrene Tschenenen, Iraker, Syrier..
Alles klar, bleibst dabei?!
Aber statt die ganze Zeit zu belehren und mir zu empfehlen Bücher zu lesen, kann man mal reflektieren, ob man selbst nicht auch Nachholbedarf hat.^^
Erstens mal, ich bezweifle stark, dass dort ein nennenswerter Teil der syrischen und irakischen IS-Anhänger kampfunerfahren ist. Schließlich kennst du die Hintergründe der Irakkriege und des Syrienskrieg wahrscheinlich selbst.
Und weiter kann sich die Zusammensetzung einfach auch mal näher anschauen.
After significant setbacks for the group during the latter stages of the coalition forces' presence in Iraq, by late 2012 it was thought to have renewed its strength and more than doubled the number of its members to about 2,500,[130] and since its formation in April 2013, ISIS grew rapidly in strength and influence in Iraq and Syria. In June 2014, The Economist reported that "ISIS may have up to 6,000 fighters in Iraq and 3,000–5,000 in Syria, including perhaps 3,000 foreigners; nearly a thousand are reported to hail from Chechnya and perhaps 500 or so more from France, Britain and elsewhere in Europe".[131] Chechen fighter Abu Omar al-Shishani, for example, was made commander of the northern sector of ISIS in Syria in 2013.[132][133]
1000 Tschetschenen finde ich nicht gerade wenig. Die paar Hundert aus Europa dürften tatsächlich kampfunerfahren sein. Aber sind wohl weder Bauern noch zum Großteil Kinder, auch wenn sie sehr jung sind.
Und einige weitere Einschätzungen.
By 2014, ISIS was increasingly being viewed as a militia rather than a terrorist group by some organizations.[135] As major Iraqi cities fell to al-Baghdadi's cohorts in June, Jessica Lewis, a former US army intelligence officer at the Institute for the Study of War, described ISIS as "not a terrorism problem anymore", but rather "an army on the move in Iraq and Syria, and they are taking terrain. They have shadow governments in and around Baghdad, and they have an aspirational goal to govern. I don't know whether they want to control Baghdad, or if they want to destroy the functions of the Iraqi state, but either way the outcome will be disastrous for Iraq." Lewis has called ISIS "an advanced military leadership". She said, "They have incredible command and control and they have a sophisticated reporting mechanism from the field that can relay tactics and directives up and down the line. They are well-financed, and they have big sources of manpower, not just the foreign fighters, but also prisoner escapees."[135]
Aber ja, du wirst recht haben. Das haben sie mit einem Heer aus Bauern und Kindern erreicht.. -.-