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re: 60 Iraqi battalions unaccounted for or defeated
Posted on 6/23/14 at 3:10 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Posted on 6/23/14 at 3:10 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I don't care who you are, I don't need no Army dude explaining light infantry tactics to me.
Quote of the year bro!
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Do you think the Iraqi army will actually try to take back the territory or are the content with just holding Baghdad and the South?
Hard to tell, none of my boys have call me from Baghdad and given me an update yet. I strongly suspect that Mosul and Tal Afar ill be primary targets to be reclaimed. As it stands now ISIS has every meaningful HSAOA in the north and west and that means they can hole up and resupply whenever they want. Like intimidation recruiting campaigns and inter marriage ASAP. The baathist power players are most likely east of Mosul in :::GASP::: Kurdistan waiting for the right moment to reconcile. Kurds will likely get full control over Kirkuk our of this deal, which I assume they planned all along.
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Agreed. I draw the line at pissing on the enemy dead.
haha.
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Posted on 6/23/14 at 3:48 pm to LSURussian
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As for why U.S.-trained Iraqi forces are disintegrating, much of the blame rests with Maliki, officials say.
The controversial Iraqi leader is faulted for purging the army of senior leaders and replacing them with "cronies and hacks."
Retired Gen. Jack Keane, Fox News military analyst and former Army vice chief of staff, said that several years ago, the army was "well-led and it was competent" -- but morale "began to systematically break down for the last three years" because of "ineffective leaders."
But experts say the blame also lies with the U.S., and the failure to strike an agreement allowing U.S. forces to stay beyond 2011.
"We left [Maliki] to himself," Keane said, adding that the army is "kind of like a house where termites have been at it for years."
So, we spent $25 billion to train the new Iraqi track team? Wonder if we could have outsourced this to the French Foreign Legion.
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