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[bladevalant546]

Culturally yes and training, however they are gaining modern equipment rather quickly.

They captured 3 M1A1 Abrams tanks from the Iraqi army. They set fire to the captured tanks.

The Migs they've captured were Mig-21s. Which is 1955 technology. There is no indication they see uses for them other than a cool prop for taking selfies.

From this it seem doubtful they are inclined to avail themselves of any modern equipment that can't be fired from the shoulder or from atop a tripod.

Well if they burned the Abrams...then they are dumb. Thanks for the information.

In either case I wish we could just get off of oil in terms of power and production so we can just leave the middle east alone.

@TaraJo

Yea Ike tried to warn us about that didn't he? I think it just crazy how much we allow the Right and left (if it even exists) control our minds.

@Minimal,

That is a tactic I think should work rather well, and I believe you when it comes to the fact the Iraqi military is well meh. I know some people who tried to train them...they simply like to ignore everything we teach them out of spite.