But they will not learn to dance.
In this case I am referring to the Iraqi Army…….
After the US-trained and armed Iraqi military collapsed in the face of ISIS offensives in 2014, the US embarked on a broad effort to retrain and reorganize the military. 17 months into this effort, US officials are increasingly admitting the effort is another failure.
Retired Lt. Gen. Mick Bednarek, who commanded the US training mission until last year, said the Iraqi Army has not improved much, saying the big problem is a lack of recruitment and retention in the Iraqi forces, saying the US officers are ready to train who shows up, but are never sure who that’s going to be.
Other US officials complained that the Iraqi military’s commanders are too cozy with the Shi’ite militias they so heavily depend on in the war, and that many of the US arms being transferred to the Iraqi military “either because of corrupt commanders or outright robbery,” end up in the hands of the militia.
Things are just not going as planned in Iraq……the US cannot break the unsuccessful program of training the Iraqi Army…..the whole situation has been a disaster for 13 years….and yet we just keep trying…..
A 17-month U.S. effort to retrain and reunify Iraq’s regular army has failed to create a large number of effective Iraqi combat units or limit the power of sectarian militias, according to current and former U.S. military and civilian officials.
Concern about the shortcomings of the American attempt to strengthen the Iraqi military comes as Iraqi government forces and Shi’ite militias have launched an offensive to retake the city of Falluja from Islamic State. Aid groups fear the campaign could spark a humanitarian catastrophe, as an estimated 50,000 Sunni civilians remain trapped in the besieged town.
Source: US Falters in 17-month Campaign to Revive Iraqi Army, Officials Say | World Affairs Journal
BTW, what was it that genius Einstein had to say about doing the same things over and over?
So…. that means to our government that we should stay there and fight for them forever?
Appears that is the plan….
Ugh!! So frustrating!
Yes it is and few seem to care….
They would if they knew someone over there.
And there is the problem….no shared experience…..until the country has that this will continue….
The fact that our men are there should be enough for their concern.
Oh I agree….but sadly it is not
I am beginning to believe the whole concept of Iraq needing U.S. Military help was designed from the beginning to be a resource-draining facade intended to weaken The United States forces and the U.S. Citizens’ resolve. I think the continued failure of the forces we train there to come up to standard is intentional and part of a greater plan on the part of the enemy to wear us down.
The only enemy that is staffing this play is the M-IC….without continuous war they will make less and less money and we know that cannot happen.
Einstein also said this:
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Well said!
Thanx. dru
Pass…. too easy, too many targets….
gigoid
Oh,the dubious…in his lofty tower….grin.
Not so lofty, but, solitary enough, to be sure….
*grin*
gigoid, the dubious