Robert Burns of the AP reports that:
About half of Iraq’s army is incapable of partnering effectively with the U.S. to roll back the Islamic State group’s territorial gains in western and northern Iraq, and the other half needs to be partially rebuilt with U.S. training and additional equipment, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday.
The inadequacy of the Iraqi army implies, necessarily, a need for it to be trained up, with Americans doing the training. But:
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