Nash, E and Searle, DA 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3311-4090
2021,
Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019
, New Vanguard, 299
, Osprey, Oxford.
Abstract
One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadists of the Islamic State against the improvised Kurdish force, the YPG (later the SDF). While some Kurdish vehicles originated from Syrian Army stocks, or were captured from ISIS, many others were homemade AFVs based on trucks or agricultural diggers. This study explains how the Kurds built their own AFVs, the tactics they employed against ISIS in their mobile operations, and which battles marked the campaign for the removal of ISIS as a conventional force in Syria.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | Cano Rodríguez, I (Illustrator) |
| Schools: | Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre |
| Publisher: | Osprey |
| Series Name: | New Vanguard |
| ISBN: | 9781472847584 (paperback); 9781472847591 (ebook); 9781472847560 (ebook) |
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| Depositing User: | Professor DA Searle |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2021 07:08 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2021 13:30 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/60935 |
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