Topic: Iraqi War

2 chapters across the catalog

Episode 405 45:41 - 48:41

405: Piles of Pelicans

General Martin Dempsey, Iraqi Police Training Failures

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reflects on the early failures of the Iraq War. He admits that U.S. forces were initially teaching Iraqi police how to issue traffic tickets while the officers were being killed by a well-organized insurgency, illustrating a lack of cultural and tactical understanding.