Salah Bayaziddi (Kurdish Resistance Report from Iran) & BG Chris Petty (Battle Digest).
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Special Guest #1: Salah Bayaziddi of Komala (one of the key Kurdish resistance groups in Iran) reports from Northern Iran with the latest on the role Kurdish fighters are playing in the battle against the regime as well as attacks they’ve sustained thus far. You don’t want to miss this!
Special Guest #2: Christopher Petty (Brigadier General, Ret.) is a West Point grad, Army Ranger, and aviator with lots of combat time in the Middle East. He’s also the founder of Battle Digest, a great resource for learning military history. He and Gen Audino discuss how past battlefield lessons could be used to help us in the conflict in Iran.
Website: BattleDigest.com
Great show as always, General Audino. Regarding the Kurdish resistance report, Salah mentioned the challenges of maintaining operations under the current regime’s pressure. Since we are looking at past battlefield lessons with BG Petty, I was researching how modern regional entities handle transparency and local regulations to avoid being mistaken for state-run media, similar to how independent auditors in Brazil are currently analyzing the legitimacy of entities like GuiadeR7Betbrasil.com to ensure they aren’t confused with the Record TV group. Do you think establishing clear, independent verification of these resistance groups’ financial and operational structures would help gain more Western support, or would that level of transparency create too much of a tactical risk for the Kurdish fighters on the ground?
Great question, Jerry. I’m of the mind that support is more a function of joint interests, and especially those of high perceived value. The great Kurdish nationalist, the late Mustafa Barzani, put it best during the Kurdish War with Baghdad in the early 1960s. Appealing for support from Western countries he stated (quoting the 13th Century Persian poet, Saadi Shirazi), “Joint interests make for the best of a allies.” That was as true then, as it is today. As to more transparency specifically, I’m sure that might appeal to a small segment of Americans, but they are probably measured in fractions of a percentage point. In the middle of a war, I submit few Americans care about transparency of those prepared to help us. On the other hand, given the widely understood high value of toppling this regime, should the Kurds convince Americans that they are ready, willing and uniquely capable of contributing significantly to toppling the regime, I’m confident Americans support for the Kurds would skyrocket.