Hope springs eternal for NATO officials confident of their ability to create strong militaries in the Western style across the world with training missions, and this week’s NATO summit is expected to unveil their next training target as Iraq.
NATO has plenty of experience training Iraq’s military to a point they are contented with, having left in 2011 after years of training top Iraqi officers, only to watch that Iraqi military collapse in the face of ISIS opposition, with the very same top officers accused of abandoning their posts more or less immediately.
The US and Britain have already sent troops back into Iraq to launch a training operation aimed at “reforming” a military that they’d only just finished creating a few years prior, and are hoping, given how poorly the recent effort is going, that more NATO members would be the solution.
With NATO slowly reducing its presence in Afghanistan, it is only natural they’d be looking for new missions to justify their continued existence, and recent predictions of a Russian invasion haven’t exactly panned out, leaving Iraq the most convenient target.
During it’s creation, NATO promised that it would be strictly for defense and do combat only within the North Atlantic states. But, quite the reverse has been it’s track record, take for example the way that NATO was the ring leader of a fascist coup in Ukraine, which so destroyed the economy of a section of Ukraine that it rejoined Russia, which NATO now uses as an excuse to expand.
"it is only natural they’d be looking for new missions to justify their continued existence" and that's why they created ISIS!
Yes, the impossibility to "train" any living person to risk dying for something he hardly believes in. High enough pay or big enough perks, yes might sometimes do it. The fundamental problem here is Western fantasizing about an alien planet and a human nature which doesn't exist, not even right here at home. Just in some fevered, confused mind propelled by mass media engines. It really has to stop! This engine cannot run on inflated dollars any way.
The last successfully functioning military trained by the US was…the army of the Confederacy