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The Iraqi Army when first confronted by the ISIS forces literally dropped their uniforms and weapons and ran to melt into the civilian population. Many of the best Iraqi officers had been purged by the Sunni-dominated government because they were Shiite. Others because they had no political connections. That left an officer corps of cronies and incompetents to lead troops that had little loyalty to the national government and had no ideas why they should risk their life. They were much better equipped than ISIS because of their American supplied weapons, but they allowed ISIS to capture much of these. Ya’Alon and many others were very skeptical of the same army to do better the second time around.