Topic: Iraqi Army Seen as Ill Equipped to Retake Mosul From ISIS, Despite U.S. Aid (Read 418 times)
June 07, 2016, 06:46:45 AM
America should support the Shia forces and kurdish forces instead. The Iraqi army are sunni and ISIS is also sunni. Most of the sunni are ISIS sympathizers.
June 07, 2016, 04:37:25 AM
Well they were properly equipped - but they let ISIS steal all their stuff. It's pointless giving them more - they'll just lose it and all we'll end up doing is arming ISIS. It's interesting how well ISIS is operating though - did all the ex-Iraqi officers from Saddam's time go into ISIS I wonder?
June 07, 2016, 04:34:22 AM
It's a good thing, therefore, that american withdrew its fight against ISIS thinking that Iraqi troops could finish the job.
June 07, 2016, 01:19:42 AM
liberate Musil from ISIS will be much more difficult than all other Iraqi citys because it is their capital in Iraq and also there are a lot of civilians there even more than faluga where civilians escaping delayed the city's retaking
June 06, 2016, 08:58:56 PM
Is this a surprise to anyone? Not to me. Isis are in complete control over there and will continue its reign of terror till we nuke the shit out of them.
June 06, 2016, 08:56:12 PM
If they are ill equipped for the battle, then there is a simple solution. Just disarm the Iraqi army, and send them back to their barracks in Basra and Baghdad. Give the military equipment and weapons to the Kurdish Peshmerga. They are a much better fighting force, and they have proved it earlier as well (Kobane, Sinjar, Al Shadadi.etc).
June 05, 2016, 04:17:13 PM
An exhausted and ill-equipped Iraqi Army faces daunting obstacles on the battlefield that will most likely delay for months a long-planned major offensive on the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, American and allied officials say.
The delay is expected despite American efforts to keep Iraq’s creaky war machine on track. Although President Obama vowed to end the United States’ role in the war in Iraq, in the last two years the American military has increasingly provided logistics to prop up the Iraqi military, which has struggled to move basics like food, water and ammunition to its troops.
Without the help, Americans commanders said, the offensive against Mosul would most likely fail.
Americans are ferrying equipment and spare parts directly to the battlefield by cargo plane, helping arrange purchases of ammunition for Soviet-era equipment and pressing the Iraqis to adopt measures to improve a supply chain that would run over 200 miles from Defense Ministry depots in the Baghdad area to Mosul.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/world/middleeast/iraqi-army-seen-as-ill-equipped-to-retake-mosul-from-isis-despite-us-aid.html
The delay is expected despite American efforts to keep Iraq’s creaky war machine on track. Although President Obama vowed to end the United States’ role in the war in Iraq, in the last two years the American military has increasingly provided logistics to prop up the Iraqi military, which has struggled to move basics like food, water and ammunition to its troops.
Without the help, Americans commanders said, the offensive against Mosul would most likely fail.
Americans are ferrying equipment and spare parts directly to the battlefield by cargo plane, helping arrange purchases of ammunition for Soviet-era equipment and pressing the Iraqis to adopt measures to improve a supply chain that would run over 200 miles from Defense Ministry depots in the Baghdad area to Mosul.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/world/middleeast/iraqi-army-seen-as-ill-equipped-to-retake-mosul-from-isis-despite-us-aid.html
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