It's a shame that the Iraqi forces couldn't be as brave as the Kurds.
One Paragraph Explains How ISIS Managed To Seize Iraq's Second-Largest City
On June 6, hundreds of ISIS jihadists on pick-up trucks raced towards Mosul with the somewhat modest goal of seizing control of parts of the city for several hours, thus making a statement that the Baghdad government couldn't ignore.
Instead, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) collapsed, ISIS pushed their advantage, and large swaths of northern Iraq fell under the group's control, according to a special report from Reuters by Ned Parker, Isabel Coles, and Raheem Salman.
The report, compiled from months of research and interviews with ISIS-affiliated contacts, members of the Iraqi military, and Kurdish officials, re-creates the slow moving disaster that ended with the jihadist seizure of Iraq's second-largest city.
As it turns out, one of the main reasons for the fall of Mosul was the Iraqi Security Forces' fatally poor logistics.
Reuters:
The first line of Mosul’s defence was the sixth brigade of the Third Iraqi army division. On paper, the brigade had 2,500 men. The reality was closer to 500. The brigade was also short of weapons and ammunition, according to one non-commissioned officer. Infantry, armor and tanks had been shifted to Anbar, where more than 6,000 soldiers had been killed and another 12,000 had deserted. It left Mosul with virtually no tanks and a shortage of artillery[.]
This shortage sharply undercut the manpower required to defend Mosul.
The city was meant to have approximately 25,000 soldiers and police defending it in total. In actuality, there was at most 10,000 security personnel in the city at the time of the attack.
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One Paragraph Explains How ISIS Managed To Seize Iraq's Second-Largest City
- OCT. 14, 2014, 3:20 PM
On June 6, hundreds of ISIS jihadists on pick-up trucks raced towards Mosul with the somewhat modest goal of seizing control of parts of the city for several hours, thus making a statement that the Baghdad government couldn't ignore.
Instead, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) collapsed, ISIS pushed their advantage, and large swaths of northern Iraq fell under the group's control, according to a special report from Reuters by Ned Parker, Isabel Coles, and Raheem Salman.
The report, compiled from months of research and interviews with ISIS-affiliated contacts, members of the Iraqi military, and Kurdish officials, re-creates the slow moving disaster that ended with the jihadist seizure of Iraq's second-largest city.
As it turns out, one of the main reasons for the fall of Mosul was the Iraqi Security Forces' fatally poor logistics.
Reuters:
The first line of Mosul’s defence was the sixth brigade of the Third Iraqi army division. On paper, the brigade had 2,500 men. The reality was closer to 500. The brigade was also short of weapons and ammunition, according to one non-commissioned officer. Infantry, armor and tanks had been shifted to Anbar, where more than 6,000 soldiers had been killed and another 12,000 had deserted. It left Mosul with virtually no tanks and a shortage of artillery[.]
This shortage sharply undercut the manpower required to defend Mosul.
The city was meant to have approximately 25,000 soldiers and police defending it in total. In actuality, there was at most 10,000 security personnel in the city at the time of the attack.
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