My god, that's what we've been doing all along, and it hasn't worked. The Iraqi troops are particularly targeted for killing, and they tend to 'desert'.US military commanders are planning to reassign thousands of US troops in Iraq to advise and train Iraqi military units, officials say.
The plan is to transfer up to a brigade, or about 5000 soldiers, to the training role, they were quoted as saying by the New York Times, adding that many more would be assigned adviser jobs.
To compensate for the loss of fighting power, one officer said, commanders intend to put the Iraqi units they train in the field.
"It will be a process of 'train-fight-train'," the officer said.
Aljazeera article
I am assuming that this will have to mean more troops deployed to Iraq to actually compensate for the loss of fighting power, and they're just not saying so.
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