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| Chatulio | 10th March 2016 - 09:50 PM |
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Hello chivaz serko, with a post like that, I'm not even sure where to start... A) Associative error: Trying to link a training program with current progress of a military is nonsensical. The decision of when to liberate Shingal was made by the leadership of the KRG and the Peshmerga and was not tied to the KTCC and its training programs. While there may be incentive to draw out the conflict in order to maximize the training program's output and other support deliveries, I would be disinclined to believe that that is the case. When the KRG-leadership conducts any operation and in what manner is up to them. Coordinating with the coalition naturally allows coalition airforces to provide support, but the coalition isn't making strategic decisions for the KRG, so if they take their time with any liberations, it is their own decision. B) What determines the success of a training program? If we go with increases in professionalism, effectiveness and a reduction of casualties of the units that had passed the program, it would seem it is successful. At least the soldiers who passed it comment regularly that they learned many useful skills and that they'd have lost fewer comrades on the battlefield if they had known that already in the past. Peshmerga leadership also comments on occasion that they notice the significant increase in performance of units that went through the KTCC and they keep sending units to be trained. So in contrast to some armchair-generals, it would seem the soldiers in the field and their leadership consider the training-program (which is always worked out in cooperation with the Ministry for Peshmerga affairs) to be useful and effective. C) What does the anti-IS coalition do in the KRG? Training through the KTCC is just one aspect of the help provided by the coalition. Another is material support, the US just delivered a large load of materials, with the KTCC showing kurdish soldiers how it can be used effectively, and more deliveries are scheduled. Germany also has a scheduled delivery and other coalition partners may as well. These include weapons, from pistols to mortars and ATGMs, armor, NBC-protection gear, medical equipment, vehicles, NV equipment, communications equipment, ammunition and so on. Germany may be the leading contributor, but it is not the only one. Then there are airstrikes, of which the US are the undisputed lead contributors (giving the KRG access to a selection from the the world's most advanced airforces). Over many thousand sorties, the coalition airforces have dropped staggering amounts of high-quality ordanance on the IS-terrorists, both at the front and in the back areas. The effects are often documented in battle reports, as the airstrikes both diminish attacks on Peshmerga lines (often destroying more vehicles than the Peshmerga) and spearheading every offensive (going so far that the IS-terrorists resort to tunnel systems to protect themselves). Targeted airstrikes also killed a considerable number of IS-leaders, destroyed numerous depots, including mustard gas depots lately. The US special forces have also been quite active lately, providing direct support for the kurdish special forces and conducting independent operations, like the capture of an leading IS chemical weapons expert last month. Then there is also financial and humanitarian support that, while there are numerous issues to attend to, help keeping the KRG going financially and allowing them to shelter and supply the refugees on their territory. Altogether, the coalition members, many of whom, like Germany, have no colonial history in the region and no greater economic interests, that the KRG would be fighting for, provide a number of support-activities for the KRG, despite having plenty of troubles of their own to tend to. The leadership of the KRG could, of course, always request the coalition to withdraw from the KRG and cease their activities on the KRG's behalf, but I don't see the consequences as a desirable scenario for the KRG while the coalition members could naturally distribute their resources to other projects. With best regards, Chatulio
Edited by Chatulio, 10th March 2016 - 10:18 PM.
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