Despite a decade and $25 billion in taxpayer money spent to train and equip Iraq’s army, the U.S. military is starting from scratch as it prepares Iraq’s newest soldiers to retake Mosul in the spring from the Islamic State.
But it is not clear whether the new support will achieve what top U.S. military leaders call a “sustainable political outcome.”
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