Kurdish Armour Against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 201419

Author: Nash, Ed

Iraq War

Published on 16 September 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Osprey Publishing) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the New Vanguard' series.

Paperback | 48 pages, Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrations
185 x 246 x 5 | 170g

One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent

years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadis of Islamic State against an

improvised force belonging to the Kurdish YPG (later the SDF). While some

Kurdish vehicles were originally from Syrian Army stocks or captured from ISIS,

many others were extraordinary homemade AFVs based on truck or digger

mechanicals, or duskas, the Kurds version of the technical. Before US

air power was sent to Syria, these were the Kurds most powerful and mobile

weapons.

Co-written by a British volunteer who fought with the Kurds and an academic expert on armoured warfare, this study explains how the Kurds built and used their AFVs in the war against Daesh, and identifies as far as possible which vehicles took part in major battles, such as Kobane, Manbij and Raqqa. With detailed new artwork depicting the Kurds range of armour and many previously unpublished photos, this is an original and fascinating look at modern improvised mechanized warfare.