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Syria remains embroiled in a full-scale civil war. Without any viable political process and in view of the number of armed groups operating in Syria BMI does not foresee any let up in the violence soo n . Our view is that while the anti-Islamic State coalition has made some strides the long term effectiveness of this coalition to bring stability to Syria seems rather questionable.
Although the air-strikes carried out by the U.S. led anti-Islamic State coalition have hurt the group hard we think that their long-term effectiveness is questionable without a longer term strategy on how to remove Assad and bring about a political transition. Without defining a clearer strategy to remove Assad we think that the U.S. is leaving itself in a dangerous position
In view of Syria's failed economy BMI estimates indicate that Syria's defence expenditure will finish the year 2014 with a 3.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) decrease which would leave the budget at an estimated USD2bn. Depending on the continuing survival of the regime we do not anticipate any significant growth in defence spending in the years ahead nor do we anticipate the value of imports and exports to change for the remainder of the forecast period ending in 2019.
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Syria's Security Risk Index score has dropped significantly in comparison to before the civil war commenced. For Q115 we have given it a score of a mere 21 which is down from 23 earlier in 2014 and 57 from January 2011. Currently Syria stands at the bottom of our Security Risk Index for the Middle East. Its average from the end of 2007 is also dropping and currently stands at 40. We are not envisaging any improvement to these scores over the course of 2015.
Recent Developments:
* On November 6 2014 the Syrian army recaptured the al-Shaer gas field 110 kilometres east of Homs from the Islamic State who had taken control of the field at the end of October.
* In December 2014 the Assad regime sustained a major setback in northern...
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* Defence Expenditure: Defence expenditure (local currency and USDbn); defence expenditure (% of total budget); defence expenditure per capita (USD); defence budget (local currency and USDbn).
* Armed Forces (to 2012): Manpower available for military service manpower fit for militaryservice army personnel navy personnelair force personnel total armed forces (‘000) (% population).
* Arms Trade: Arms and ammunition exports and imports (USDmn); bombs grenades and missiles exports and imports (USDmn); revolver and pistol exports and imports (USDmn); weapons excluding guns and swords exports and imports (USDmn).
Political Risk Assessment
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Security Risk Analysis
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