“The country is not a one-size-fits-all, a one-description-fits-all. It’s much more a mosaic,” the U.S. official in charge of training Iraqi security forces, Lieutenant General James Dubik, told military analysts today on a conference call. And he’s got a point. So maybe it’s fitting that the Pentagon’s last two quarterly reports show all sorts of unexplained shifts — even on the exact same pieces of data.
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