Коррупция как угроза национальной безопасности
How corruption abroad threatens U.S. national security
Iraqi army soldiers stand before a conference on fighting the Islamic State group. (Ahmad Rubaye / AFP/Getty Images)
When the militants of Islamic State swept across Iraq last June, they
numbered no more than 12,000 and they faced a U.S.-trained, U.S.-equipped Iraqi
army that boasted some 200,000 troops. And yet it was the Iraqi army
that сollapsed.What happened? It was more than
simply incompetence among Iraqi generals and ethnic tensions among the ranks.
The hidden factor that gave Islamic State its victory was Iraq's rampant
corruption…
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