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12.06.2005

Why Iraq Has No Army

Atlantic Monthly has a fascinating (and horrifying) article on why Iraq's army and police forces are slowly but surely becoming less and less capable of holding the country together. What continues to amaze is just how little is being done to resolve issues stemming from problems created when we first got there.

2 comments:

tagryn said...

I found Fallow's article interesting reading, also.

For further thoughts, a critique of it can be found at http://oxblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/washington-buzz-why-iraq-has-no-army.html

Erik said...

Thanks for the link. Although I wasn't too enamored of OxBlog's analysis, I did find this interesting piece of reading among the comments:
News Briefing with Lt. Gen. David Petraeus. I'm going to sift through it later.