The U.S.-backed Iraqi Security Force’s battle for the city of Mosul likely won’t be the end of fighting in Iraq, the Institute for the Study of War warns in a stark new assessment.
Former President Barack Obama’s strategy in Iraq focused on bolstering the Iraqi Security Forces taking territory away from the Islamic State. The strategy did little to address the grievances of Iraq’s Sunni population, the problem which gave rise to ISIS in the first place. ISW’s assessment declares that “the U.S.-backed Coalition has been focused only on eliminating ISIS, not other insurgent groups or the conditions that grow them.”
America’s top general in Iraq estimates the fight for Mosul will wrap up in approximately 6 months, leaving the Trump administration to ensure the country does not again plunge into chaos.
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