Joprojām Ramadi

[..]QUESTION: And you don’t think the Iraqi Government will be tempted to fall back on the Popular Mobilization Forces in areas that have been recaptured?

COL WARREN: Well, it’s an Iraqi Government decision. We would prefer the Iraqi Government to lean most heavily on the regular army and the CTS. I mean, we’ve been around a day or two so we understand that the PMF is part of the apparatus here, so I mean, we understand there’s a place for them. But what we want to see is the focus of the Iraqi Government and the kind of the lynchpin of the Iraqi security apparatus be the army. [..]

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vara bungas: VB cenšas sekot notikumiem  ap Ramadi pilsētu Irākā, jo kautkādā mērā IQ armija un SUV man atgādina mūsējos, kā arī operācijas modelis: iezemieši – pa zemi, atbalstītāji – no gaisa, man šķiet reāls arī LV apstākļiem. Šobrīd Ramadi vēl joprojām nav pilnībā ieņemta, lai gan pilnībā  iznīcināta pilsēta. Rindā uz atbrīvošanu gaida Mosula un Faludža, bet elites spēki,kā teikts preses konfrencē “demonstrē noguruma pazīmes”.  Arī apmacības ziņā, visu ko protam esam  mācījušies galvenokārt no amerikāņiem. Tātad zinamas paralēles var vilkt. Arī politiskās vadības problēmas ir līdzīgas.

[..] QUESTION: Well, why don’t you think that the groups that you’re now training aren’t going to get hollowed out and stop fighting or —

COL WARREN: Well, it’s impossible to know that. I mean, I suppose it could happen. What we saw was – I mean, specifically, the prime minister at the time, Maliki, he did a couple of things that resulted in the Iraqi army becoming a hollow force and really kind of rotting from the inside out. He did things like relieve competent leaders, generals, all the way down to lower-ranking officers if they weren’t part of his tribe or part of his in-club, et cetera. He worked funding in certain ways. There was a lot of corruption. So this was truly an example of disastrous leadership from the top resulting in a disaster. Will that happen in the future? It’s impossible to know. Certainly, we like to believe that the Iraqis have learned some lessons.[..]

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