How Did 800 ISIS Fighters Surprise And Rout 2 Iraqi Divisions Trained By U.S. Advisers And Armed With Billions Of Dollars In American Weapons?

ISIS Winning In Iraq Despite Being Outnumbered 15:1 -- Breitbart

The seizure of Iraq’s second largest city by a group too ruthless to make it in “core” al Qaeda represents the culmination of years of history and a U.S. foreign policy that has failed to properly conceive of and counter the Al Qaeda movement at its most basic level.

Long War Journal recently produced an excellent GEOINT model of ISIS’s gains across Iraq and Syria; though ISIS’s control of the towns and cities in question is not universal or uniform, neither is the Iraqi or Syrian government’s respective control of their own space. Including recent gains, Al Qaeda now controls a space roughly the size of Syria.

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Update: How did 800 ISIS fighters rout 2 Iraqi divisions? -- Military Times

My Comment: All of the articles in this post are a must read.