The massive Iraqi Army was routed by ISIS in the summer, and shrank precipitously, as the divisions based in Mosul basically vanished, through defections or executions, and their equipment almost entirely ended up in ISIS hands.
What’s left of the military is a train wreck, corrupt and with crumbling morale. The Iraqi government was looking to the US to remake the Iraqi Army for the second time in a decade, but the US is looking to defer that daunting task, at least for awhile.
Instead, officials say the US is looking to create an entirely separate light infantry “vanguard force” for the time being, figuring they can cobble together these new brigades first and then use them as a model for a “leaner, meaner Iraqi Army.”
The biggest problem looming over this yet-to-be-created force, estimated to have 45,000 troops, is that it will be too small and too lightly armed to retake Mosul, meaning that project for the US war remains something that will likely involve US or other foreign ground troops.
Light infantry is the only part of the Iraqi Army about which we were ever serious. This amounts to cobbling together remnants of the only parts that worked even a little.
We always meant to provide the fire support and logistics. Now we are just planning to do what we had planned to do before.
So, the US is planning to do in 2 months what they couldn't do in 10+ years.
It should read that the US is going to f*ck with Iraq, continuously, until the last drop of their oil is sucked out of the ground, so we can give them little to nothing for what gets stolen.
Can't defend themselves against ISIS, USSA, or pretty much anyone else who decides to walk in there and cause havoc
Deutsche Welle: 'IS' supply channels through Turkey
Every day, trucks laden with food, clothing, and other supplies cross the border from Turkey to Syria. It is unclear who is picking up the goods. The haulers believe most of the cargo is going to the "Islamic State" militia. Oil, weapons, and soldiers are also being smuggled over the border, and Kurdish volunteers are now patrolling the area in a bid to stem the supplies. http://www.dw.de/is-supply-channels-through-turke…
and NATO countries have troops all over southern (NATO) Turkey at the Patriot Missile sites!
To — FarFlungStar
Which begs the question, with Empire USA having such perverted intercourse with Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Ukraine, England, Saudi Arabia and all the oil rich Gulf states, a dozen countries in Central and South America and another dozen in Africa, can humanity save itself in anyway short of a worldwide invasion of USA and an all-out battle to the death?