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Editor’s Note: As the United States draws down in the Middle East and seeks to counter Russia and China, it will rely heavily on partner military forces. Too often, however, U.S. efforts to train these forces have achieved little or at times ended in disaster. Ben Connable of the Atlantic Council examines one of the worst such U.S. efforts—the effort to train the Iraqi army since 2003—and describes the primary problem as one of brittleness: The forces simply fall apart when hit hard. Connable calls for relying less on Iraqi special forces and other specialized units and rethinking how the United States trains the larger army.
Daniel Byman
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Conditions in Iraq have improved to the point that, in December 2021, the United States ended its combat support operations in the country. A residual force of about 2,500 U.S. military personne
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