[rbg81]

Interesting. However, it does not explain why groups like ISIS are having such success.

[UCANSEE2]

However, it does not explain why groups like ISIS are having such success.

Well.... ISIS has the backing of the US Government.

[vladimir998]

“Interesting. However, it does not explain why groups like ISIS are having such success.”

True, it doesn’t say it but isn’t logical to conclude that it boils down to two things?:

1) They don’t think, plan, or act the same way the Arab national armies do - or at least not to the same degree.

2) ISIS is fighting Arab national armies which are all deficient - as the articles point out.

The Kurds - who are not Arabs - have had some bis successes against ISIS even without heavy equipment (gee, thanks for nothing Obama). And the Turks probably could crush ISIS in a matter of weeks. It’s not that ISIS is oh so good. It is that everyone they are fighting is oh so terribly bad.