Why The Kurds Initially Failed Against ISIS In Iraq ( Copy Right @ The Business Insider, Author- Jeremy Bender)
Kurdish Peshmerga ( Image credits- Wikimedia commons/ Author-Boris Niehaus) The Kurdish Peshmerga have enjoyed a reputation as the strongest and fiercest fighting force within Iraq. However, the recent advances by ISIS against Kurdish positions has highlighted some of the key areas in which the Peshmerga have been lacking. Chiefly, the Peshmerga suffer from a lack of soldiers with clear battlefield experience who are able to respond to a variety of military situations. Instead, the explosive growth of the economy in Iraqi Kurdistan drew many former veterans into other lines of work. "Many of the pesh merga's battle-hardened veterans quit to take advantage of new opportunities amid a wave of economic development," Azam Ahmed of The New York Times reports . " Training became an afterthought, and there was little incentive to unify pesh merga units that remained mostly divided along political party lines." Related to the lack of military vete