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2015-03-04 Iraq

Australia to Send Extra 300 Troops to Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Allow me to give a tip to all the national leaders that are committing forces to Iraq to work "inside the wire".

In a wartime theater of operations, no fighters anywhere will pay any attention to "trainers" who do not accompany then into battle, and suffer the same hardships.

Training works during peacetime, and maybe even during times of low-level insurgency. When combined arms fighting is occurring nearby, and "students" will next be walking into intense combat - it is too late to send in training cadre to impart instruction "vicariously," away from the battle area.

You train by leading them, up-front and personally, and - after they have seen you "walk the walk", they may emulate you. Or - they may do the typical Arab thing, and either surrender or slither away and desert.

Except the Kurds - the Peshmurga are excellent, brave soldiers.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-03-04 03:42|| 2015-03-04 03:42|| Front Page Top

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