I understand that Maliki would not deal with the British chain of command, and will meet only with US commanders. The Brits were never popular nor do they know how to be popular in the ME givened their legacy. The last time the Brits were in Iraq was WWI, they threw out the Turks, and manage to insult every tribal leader in Iraq which resulted in the Iraqis helping the Turks to retake Iraq. The Brit force was cut off and surrounded by Turk/Iraqi tribal forces and almost starved to death. At least the provincial Americans (the cowboy, meat and potato, beer drinking and hard liquour types) managed to build coalitions with the various tribal leaders and learned to use force judicially until a US proxy force was formed to do the future fighting. Battle for Basra is the shakedown run for the US trained Iraqi Army. We will simply adjust the training and doctrine, and the Iraqi Army will go into battle again, and again, and again. Each time the Iraqi Army will flush out their idiots, promote the deserving ones and will become a good fighting force.
Yup, barring a traitorous demscum victory in Nov and a subsequent betrayal of Iraq to help the demscums’ jihadist allies, Iraq will have the best military in the region besides Israel’s and possibly Turkey’s. In three years, that is...
“The Brits were never popular nor do they know how to be popular in the ME givened their legacy”
Another Brit hater i see! Join the club. Its called FR!