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The failure of the Iraqi Army in 1991 was basically a failure of leadership. Another example would be the French in 1940 or the Indians in 1962 or the Americans in North Africa. In 1991 they did everything they could to fight to the enemy's advantage. Starting with their deployments leaving their right flank exposed like that in a "fuck me" position. Interestingly during the actual battle (IIRC) three Iraqi divisions turned around under heavy fire and engaged the Allies, they were destroyed, but they helped the bulk of the Iraqi forces escape.
Problems with leadership can doom even the best armies; take a look at the failure of the United States Military to impose its Nations will on two small countries in the last 15 years for illustration.
The rest of the example, including a pre-2003 triumphant article, are nonsense. While the Iraqi's did not cover themselves in glory in 2014 versus ISIS and there were systemic problems, as more sober and less derisive analysis have pointed out, ISIS was a whole new level of batshit insane. Here for instance
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Problems with leadership can doom even the best armies; take a look at the failure of the United States Military to impose its Nations will on two small countries in the last 15 years for illustration.
The rest of the example, including a pre-2003 triumphant article, are nonsense. While the Iraqi's did not cover themselves in glory in 2014 versus ISIS and there were systemic problems, as more sober and less derisive analysis have pointed out, ISIS was a whole new level of batshit insane. Here for instance
But the Islamic State was also a deadlier enemy than even the U.S. military faced during the 2003–2011 occupation. During the I.S. assault on Ramadi, the terror group leveled a fortified Iraqi position by smashing through a concrete blast wall with an armored bulldozer.
“And what [the Islamic State] did was then shot through this gap a series of five-ton trucks, each one of them — they used seven in this main attack
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if we’re to believe the accounts, really were at the receiving end of a well-planned, well-executed attack by the Islamic State that involved a number of very, very large explosive car bombs, some of which were said to be the sides of those in the Oklahoma City bombing, literally kind of leveling blocks or at least large buildings, an assault that any military force would have a hard time with.