Iraqi Army Will to Fight: A Will-to-Fight Case Study with Lessons for Western Security Force Assistance

By Ben Connable

The Iraqi Army's collapse in summer 2014 has been widely attributed to a lack of will to fight. In this report, Ben Connable applies RAND's analytic model of will to fight to the regular Iraqi Army, identifying factors that contribute to or undermine Iraqi Army will to fight and providing recommendations for the U.S. security force assistance mission in Iraq.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197740507X
• ISBN13: 9781977405074
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"