The Iraqi army to recapture territory caliphate

The Iraqi troops they would be reversing the trend that has seen so far succumb to the army of the Caliphate. With the help of Shiite militias was recaptured a major urban area, which has about 80,000 inhabitants and is located 60 kilometers south of Baghdad; its location, strategically important, could facilitate the advance of the Islamic state to the capital of the country, whose conquest has always been one of the targets of the fundamentalists, both from the symbolic point of view, and military. From the city could also regained access to the southern regions of the country, inhabited mainly by Shiites and endanger this population disliked by the Sunni caliphate. Now the Iraqi regular forces point to Fallujah, a stronghold of the caliphate, whose fall would result in the ranks of the Islamic state a considerable psychological effect and could pave the way towards Al Raqqa the capital of the Islamic state. For now, this goal is, however, too ambitious, the conquest of Falluja is not easy and there are fears the use of suicide bombers to fight the army of Baghdad, especially on the occasion of the celebration of the Shiite religious festival of Ashura. The Iraqi military strategy is supported by a political activity of the prime minister, who try to involve the moderate Sunnis in the field of war. Agreements were reached with Sunni tribes to form a division of 30,000 troops to be deployed against the forces of the caliphate. This change favors the US plans, which pointed to a force on the ground made ​​up of Sunnis to not create the conditions to define the war against the caliphate as a war of religion and confirms the intentions of the Iraqi Prime Minister, who last visit to Iran, stated they do not want any foreign forces on the ground in Iraq. At the same time the government of Baghdad calls for the use of American air power to share more precise, able to hit the unity of the Islamic state in a more decisive: it was estimated that only 10% of the air strikes have hit the targets; this finding, if confirmed, would be a clear signal of how the scope for improving the impact of the sky would be greatly improved, making it more decisively; This aspect can be improved by greater integration and coordination among the members of the alliance fighting in the front line. Despite the modest advance of Iraq, the organizational weaknesses that afflict him are still significant, but a restructuring during the conflict is very complicated and could complicate the structure so deleterious, but phenomena such as corruption, always high within troops, and the lack of amalgamation between Shiites and Sunnis are emergencies to be addressed as soon as possible. According to the governor of Mosul in exile, the war could last for three months, this prediction as things stand, it is still too optimistic, the military capacity of the caliphate is still substantial and his troops they would be even planning a counteroffensive, according to some analysts. It is true that the caliphate suffered several defeats in Iraqi Kurdistan by the joint action of the peshmerga, assisted by aviation and the US city of Kobane, which was an important objective for the Islamic state, is resisting strongly with real prospects for not fall into the hands of the fundamentalists. The overall picture, then, while still worrying has been some positive news that can make us hope for the defeat of the fundamentalists.