This week ISIS overran an Iraqi Army base in Anbar province. At least 300 Iraqi soldiers (jundi) are dead or missing. According to a survivor, they had no food or medicine, and they ran out of ammunition. Aid from Baghdad never came. See this article Overran by ISIS
One of the bitterest ironies of the Iraq war is that this army, which we spent billions to train and equip, is completely useless. ISIS has consistently shown itself to have better tactics, training, and morale.
The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, once oversaw the training effort. Were we honest with ourselves about the results? The lack of logistics and command and control capability was a longstanding problem that we had known about.
Still remains to be seen how we are going crush ISIS by relying on Iraqi ground forces to clear the areas we bomb.
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