Way to france in 1940, to iraq in 2013, 2014. it was not only shocking, but enormously dismaying for all those coalition forces, including british and american, that worked so hard to train this army. we have heard quite a lot about the army looking very different on paper to the reality on the ground. shadow soldiers, and about the conditions for many of the soldiers, going without food sometimes, obviously scared, and elements of corruption. it is also shocking that this wasn't realised, wasn't really taken on board, for example, in washington. i think that there are a lot of reasons that th...