Stalingrad on the Tigris:

Chilperic

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Wouldnt have happened... The Iraqi Army was not the mean kickass force it was in the Iran-Iraq War and by 2003, due to constant bombing of facilities, they were little more than a few weak divisions, as was proven by how easily they were brushed aside in the Iraq War. The problem, of course, was the insurgency.
 

Vault-Scope

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In the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, The Iraqi Army decides to make the US fight for every street corner, ever alley and every building. Sadam is detirmined to make the eventual fight for Baghdad a costly one both militarily and politically. How could the Iraqi Army turn Baghdad into a Stalingrad in which US ground forces enter but never come out again or come out of it in pieces? Sort of like a Harry Turtledove Pittsburgh in The Grapple?


The traitors generals in the Iraqi army would have to be purged.

Saddam himself would need to be more determined, put bombes in any places the US might installe major bases (Green Zone anyone?), destroys all oil-fields on hour 1.
 
In the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, The Iraqi Army decides to make the US fight for every street corner, ever alley and every building. Sadam is detirmined to make the eventual fight for Baghdad a costly one both militarily and politically. How could the Iraqi Army turn Baghdad into a Stalingrad in which US ground forces enter but never come out again or come out of it in pieces? Sort of like a Harry Turtledove Pittsburgh in The Grapple?

Iraquis did not have spare parts for their technics 2. Their generals were full idiots. Or have been bribed-they maneuvered armies much, substituting them under impacts of the Air Forces of the USA, did not conduct fights in cities. 3. There were the groups of the population dissatisfied with Saddam ( kurds)
 
Would never have happened. Though I do agree that the Taliban had some mini Stalingrads. The Iraqi army was a rag tag force by then, you could have a soldier dressed in a Haloween costume run around the border and the whole place would go into chaos.
 
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