How would you fix the Iraqi military?

>>30992660
You can't. Just simply you can't.

Allow them a few dozen generations of breeding so that the number of men that are actually military material replenishes.

America wiped them almost to fucking extinction.

>>30992660
We actually train them properly and teach a thing called fight and not run

Wonder where they're getting all the VZs from, I want one.

In all seriousness though you'd need to basically replace the vast majority of the officer corps and work on re-training the rest/training the new recruits in such a way that isn't "Arab". By that I mean you'd have to basically erase the cultural limitations that currently exist in most Arab militaries regarding among other things
>the relationship between enlisted and officers
>the dissemination of proper information to all ranks
>the near feudal structure of Arab militaries in general
This is a very rough paraphrase of "Why Arabs lose wars", though the original argument holds true. If your officer corps is non-functioning, you may as well throw in the towel then and there if you're going up against serious opposition. Most Iraqi successes thus far against ISIS have only been achieved when the Iraqis massed large numbers of men and material and hurled them at ISIS positions with varying effect. There's a handful of decent special operation units that used to work closely with us, but those are few and far between.

>>30992660
By going back in time and shooting Paul Bremer before he executed Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2

>>30992660
>No /pol/-tier answers
Well whats the point then? The issues with the Iraqi military are deeply entrenched cultural hangups that you cant possible get rid of without some Genghis khan level "restructuring".

It'd be hilarious is military people actually came here to sneaky see what we think.

>about to contract a new small arms
>post thread about it
>it's shit, abort!

>>30992660
To fix the iraqi army you need to fix the iraqi culture.
They're fundamentally incapable of conventional military.

>>30992660
Retain Saddam-era structure so that you don't have people defecting to Al-Queda/insurgency because they didn't get paid.

>>30992660
>replace the entire military with a mercenary corps that's non-muslim and with a 0% Middle Eastern/African heritage content
There. Fixed.

>>30992660
Drop nuclear ordinance on it and the rest of the Middle East.

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Train them with roughly the same network that ISOF is under. Beat the sectarianism out of them, reiterate that they are only soldiers for the ministry of defense fighting for their country.

Improve relationships with officers and communications equipment. Don't leave the civilians to be watched by militias who have no respect for human rights and the rule of law.

send 500 "officers" to a real officers academy alas west point

The officer corp is rotten and even if you purged it and replaced it with trained replacements it would eventually become corrupted again by the political leadership dealing out spoils.

The simplest way to unfuck it would be to declare war on Iraq and repeatedly maul them in battles without finishing them off strategically. With enough bloodshed, competent leadership would eventually emerge as the previous power structure was bled white.

>>30992717

This is the correct answer.

>>30992660
You can't. Why would anybody fight for some artificial lines drawn on a map? It's like expecting Yugoslavia to hold together post-Tito.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk4Yu42g0I

Today I must remind them.

Commissars.

They need Commissars and Political Officers.

This is a true and tested way by other peasant rebel armies to become a cohesive fighting force over night.

Discipline has to be brought in by gunpoint for a people as tribalistic as the Arabs.

>>30992663

FPBP.

>>30993543

That's an interesting idea, actually.

Good job, anon.

>>30993543
But Politruks made the Red Army nearly lose the war, returning command to actual officers saved their asses.

>hm, order is of battalion of Churkas to cross river without bridge
>if give order, they will mostly be of drowning
>but if not give order, Comrade Politruk is of make note and is shot and family starve
>GLORIOUS NEWS, COMRADES, WE OF CROSS RIVER!