NATO Plans Military Training Colleges in Iraq

[chlamor]

Tuesday 8th March, 2005

NATO plans military training colleges in Iraq   

“The NATO mission is going to form the staff college, the war college, and (the Iraqi) Training and Doctrine Command,” said Army Gen. George Casey, the commander of the Multinational Force Iraq, during a Pentagon briefing Tuesday. “They're already starting to do that.”

There are 117 NATO personnel on the ground in Iraq setting up these institutions, said Marine Gen. James Jones during an interview today. Jones is NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe. “Those that emerge from the training will be the Iraqi general staff and the (higher level) officers of other security institutions,” he said.

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The plan calls for a war college in Baghdad and a base to train junior officers southeast of Iraq’s capital city. “The idea is to start training about 1,000 junior officers per year in the country and maybe 500 outside,” Jones said.

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[Disturbed]

1. In the Green Zone?

If not, it will just be another target for the Insurgency.

[applegrove]

2. What a nightmare that place is. They have to train the soldiers. You

broke it - you fix it! Except it wasn't NATO that went to war.