The Independent – by ALISTAIR DAWBER
The West may be flip-flopping over whether or not to send lethal arms to the Syria rebels, but that has not stopped a 12-day military exercise in Jordan, in which thousands of troops from a variety of countries are preparing for the possibility of fighting in Syria. The war games come to an end tomorrow.
With more than half a million Syrian refugees having already crossed into Jordan, the Kingdom has for some time been worried that civil war in Syria could seep across its border. The exercises, which have been guided by the American military, are the latest stage of Amman’s preparation for eventually being sucked into the conflict. The US has already deployed patriot missile systems in Jordan, near the Syrian border. Continue reading “8,000 troops from 19 countries join Jordan ‘war games’ in readiness for spreading Syria conflict”