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I don't know if it's a lack of capability, a strategic choice, or both, but it's been two weeks since the announcement, with their troops having been reinforced twice, and they still haven't stormed the city. Instead they have continued to savagely and cowardly bombard and shell it with fighter jets, choppers, tanks, mortars and artillery. They have destroyed large parts of the city, while massively killing and wounding innocent people and causing entire neighbourhoods to flee in terror. I read the Art of War about a decade ago and found it very insightful, and appreciate strategic considerations, but so far retreat from the first neighbourhood has led to retreat from more neighbourhoods in every city in which territory was gained, and caused the focus to move to another city. After the liberation of half of Halab, it will be very hard for the people to accept this to decrease before it increases, and unacceptable whatsoever for the focus to move away from the city. Nobody from Salaheddin, al-Mashhad or Sayf al-Dawleh wants tanks in their streets and Shabbiha in their homes, and what will the unfortunate ones who had to remain there face? This is it, no other place no other time, Halab needs to be completely liberated and if that's not strategically feasible, then this was already the case before the liberation started three weeks ago. I don't think it's their intention either with all the reinforcements to the FSA coming in, people from Halab joining, and even the FSA generals reaching the battle. Either way, it's too late now, what is needed is large amounts of weapons for tens of thousands who can carry them, to liberate the rest of the city and to begin an offensive against those 20.000 and their tanks. Let their planes and choppers bombard their own troops because that's where the FSA should be.

Wassalam