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| Iraq Army Being Rebuilt to Address Weaknesses Says Defense Minister |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] Iraq is rebuilding its army to address weaknesses including poor leadership and training that led to Baghdad's forces being swept aside by Lion of Islams, the defense minister said Tuesday. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) jihadist group spearheaded a major offensive that overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in June, during which multiple Iraqi divisions collapsed. In remarks broadcast on the 94th anniversary of the founding of Iraq's army, Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi offered a stark assessment of the problems that contributed to the disaster. "Weak leaders and incompetent members assuming the chain of command, a lack of discipline, weak training, poor performance and the disintegration of public trust in the security forces... were the true reasons for the setback," Obaidi said. Iraq is working to address these problems, "beginning from the top of the army and its leadership and replacing them with nationalist, professional and competent members and leaders not tainted by corruption or lacking courage," he said. Now backed by U.S.-led air strikes, international advisers, Kurdish troops, Shiite holy warriors and Sunni tribes, Iraqi forces have begun to claw back some areas. But the jihadists still control significant territory, including three cities that will be a major challenge to retake. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Proc2K - thats why I loved working with and for the Kurds. They "get it". True warriors - and live-and-let-live as a people once you are accepted. Sucks we are probably selling them out to the Turks and Iranians thanks to Iranian ValJar and her meat puppet Obama. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-07 10:59 |
| #2 The weakness is cultural. The Kurds could overcome it. Those down river probably can't. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-07 07:55 |
| #1 Things you resisted for years under Maliki, like stopping cronyism, dumping the "Shia First Shit On Sunni" attitudes, the corruption where people dropped half their check on their commander so they didn't have to show up, the whole "I have an uncle/broither/cousin..." way of doing logistics, the ensha'allah maintenence, a professional NCO corps instead of pile of butlers and go-fers... This list goes on and on. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-07 00:14 |