Mosul will test US efforts to rebuild Iraqi army
The campaign to retake Mosul depends on the success of US-led efforts to rebuild the Iraqi army
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- Iraqi army weaknesses
- Finding alternatives
- Rebuilding the army
- Evolving battlefield
- Progress so far
- Iraqi army brigades
- Kurdish brigades
- Tribal fighters
- The road to Mosul
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_350.jpg "Iraqi army graduation ceremony in Baghdad (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)")