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U.S. in Syria: Coalition with Kurds and Split with Turkey
Kotrbáček, Adam ; Bečka, Jan (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
The main aim of the bachelor thesis is to offer a reflection on the U.S.-Kurdish cooperation in Syria with regard to Turkey, U.S. key ally in the region of Middle East. The main focus is on territory in northern Syria since the start of the cooperation in 2014 until January 2018, when the Turkish Olive Branch operation started. In the first part of the work, three aspects of U.S.- Kurdish alliance are dealt with. In each of the three chapters, both U.S. and Turkish views on the given form of U.S.-Kurdish cooperation are presented, with the aim of identifying the dividing lines between the two countries. In the second part, knowledge of the scale of these rifts is used to identify major U.S. setbacks, in its strategy regarding the relations with Turkey. It is then further elaborated how the U.S. stance in the two presented aspects of U.S.-Kurdish alliance, had negative consequences on Turkey mainly, but also, in the final analysis, on the United States itself.
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The Study of Use of Heavy Armoured Vehicles by Non-State Actors in Syria Conflict
Kotrbáček, Adam ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rosendorf, Ondřej (referee)
The use of heavy weaponry - such as tanks - in recent and current military conflicts has been overlooked, as were the principles of conventional warfare in general. With relation to armed conflict, attention has been given especially to the questions of conflict prevention and deconfliction. The thesis focuses on the ongoing conventional conflict in Syria, with the emphasis on the tactics of use of heavy armoured vehicles by non-state actors. The thesis takes advantage of volume of accessible primary sources concerning the topic to establish distinct modes of use of heavy weapons - the patterns of deployment, to analyse how the heavy weapons itself and the environment affecting their usage. On the two chosen case studies, these patterns of deployment are operationalised into an independent variable to assess whether the use of heavy armoured vehicles by insurgents in north-western Syria could be causally link with the outcome of military operations.
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U.S. in Syria: Coalition with Kurds and Split with Turkey
Kotrbáček, Adam ; Bečka, Jan (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
The main aim of the bachelor thesis is to offer a reflection on the U.S.-Kurdish cooperation in Syria with regard to Turkey, U.S. key ally in the region of Middle East. The main focus is on territory in northern Syria since the start of the cooperation in 2014 until January 2018, when the Turkish Olive Branch operation started. In the first part of the work, three aspects of U.S.- Kurdish alliance are dealt with. In each of the three chapters, both U.S. and Turkish views on the given form of U.S.-Kurdish cooperation are presented, with the aim of identifying the dividing lines between the two countries. In the second part, knowledge of the scale of these rifts is used to identify major U.S. setbacks, in its strategy regarding the relations with Turkey. It is then further elaborated how the U.S. stance in the two presented aspects of U.S.-Kurdish alliance, had negative consequences on Turkey mainly, but also, in the final analysis, on the United States itself.
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