Angkatan Darat Suriah

Angkatan Darat Suriah, secara resmi Angkatan Darat Arab Suriah (SAA) ( al-Jaysh al-’Arabī as-Sūrī), adalah cabang angkatan darat dari Angkatan Bersenjata Suriah. Angkatan ini merupakan dinas militer yang dominan dari empat dinas berseragam, mengendalikan sebagian besar posisi senior di angkatan bersenjata, dan memiliki sumber daya manusia terbesar, sekitar 80 persen dari dinas gabungan. Angkatan Darat Suriah berasal dari pasukan militer lokal dibentuk oleh Prancis setelah Perang Dunia I, setelah Prancis diperoleh mandat atas wilayah tersebut.Pollack, 2002, p.447 Secara resmi terbentuk pada tahun 1945, sebelum Suriah merdeka penuh tahun berikutnya, mereka diaktifkan kembali oleh Pemerintah Transisi untuk melawan agresi Israel pasca Kejatuhan dinasti Assad.

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 Richard M. Bennett, The Syrian Military: A Primer, Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, August/September 2001.
 Joseph Holliday, 'The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War,' Institute for the Study of War, March 2013. Seemingly the best concise description and analysis of the Syrian Army and its involvement in the current Syrian Civil War.
 Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002

 Bacaan lebih lanjut 
 Department of the Army, Area Handbook for Syria, Washington, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965, "Department of the Army pamphlet no. 550-47." Revision of the 1958 edition.
 Hicham Bou Nassif, 'Second Class: the Grievances of Sunni Officers in the Syrian Armed Forces'
 Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002 reviewed in Brooks, Risa A. "Making Military Might: Why Do States Fail and Succeed? A Review Essay." International Security 28, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 149-191.
 History of the Syrian Arab Army: Prussianization of the Arab Army, the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918, and the cult of nationalization of Arabs in the Levant after World War I, Infantry Magazine, Nov-Dec 2005.
 General Mustafa Tlas (ed.), History of the Syrian Arab Army/Al-Tareekh Al-Jaish Al-Arabi Al-Soori, Volume 1: 1901-1948, Center for Military Studies. Damascus, 2000. Volume 1 is 568 pages long and covers the Arab Revolt, the short-lived monarchy under King Feisal bin Hussein, the French Mandate, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and finally Syrian independence in 1949.
 Pesach Melovany, Out of the North an Evil shall break forth, Tel-Aviv: Contento de Semrik, 2014.

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