beleaguered iraqi army. dutch soldiers trained the fighters in the most basic of battlefield first aid, how to protect and evacuate the wounded. how to tie a sim will tourniquet. peshmerga units don t have medics. the wounded are simply thrown in the back of a car and, if they re lucky, they ll survive the drive to the nearest hospital. one aspect of training the peshmerga have asked for says the spokesman is urban warfare. foreshadowing perhaps a role in the battle for mosul. if that battle happens, the worry is that isis will sew the city with thousands of improvised explosive devices or i.e.d.s. here the troops are learning how to detect i.e.d.s. more than 50% of peshmerga