# Iraqi Military Capabilities

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-military-capabilities/554117>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 17, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-military-capabilities/554117 "2010-09-17T19:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-military-capabilities/554117/1 "2010-09-17T19:19:49Z")

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How is Iraqs military now that most of American combat troops left the country?

Most of the US forces have the right to go out of bases and take pre-emptive strikes against insurgents they think are attacking them, and with recent rise in violence and bomb attacks against applicants, do the Iraqi military have the capabilities to contain the insurgency, and is the state still weak or is it growing stronger?

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**Author:** ![godix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@godix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godix)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-military-capabilities/554117/2 "2010-09-17T20:29:00Z")

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If the Iraqi military had the capabilities to contain things, there wouldn’t be 50,000 US ‘advisers’ still in the nation…

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-military-capabilities/554117/3 "2010-09-17T20:42:08Z")

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Yeah they do day to day operations which the US used to do.