The Enemy

When the American forces invaded Iraq they thought, that they could go in, intimidate the Iraqi forces, capture Saddam Hussein, find the weapons of mass destruction they thought he had, and then make Iraq a democratic country. This is far from what reality was, because when the forces went in they were “greeted” by Iraqi soldiers, Kurds, various militias and Al-Qaeda. They dressed like civilians to trap the US forces to kill civilians, kind of like what happened Vietnam. In Vietnam the forces could not recognize the enemy from the civilian, so they killed many innocent civilians. The media got it out to the world which ultimately turned the war down, because the people in the US lost their faith in the military and then they lost the war.

When you talk about the war it is hard to say, how many adversaries there were in Iraq, because they were trained in fighting in the city and the dessert, and because the military dressed up like civilians and made the US forces confused about whom to shoot at and not to shoot at. The Iraqi soldiers were trained like some of the special corps in the states. Some were, but some other were trained specially in how to fight in the city and the desert. Which also led the war to be fought like a “normal” war, but also city war, which the Americans should adapt to before they could get the upper hand in the war.

Other than Hussein’s forces fighting the war against the US military, they had some supporting groups which helped them bring down the US military, but they also provided the Iraqi soldiers with weapons. While fighting the war, they had to hide in the cities and around the country where they could hide and then fight the Americans, from different angels, while having the upper hand in the fights. One big problem for the American soldiers was that the Iraqi soldiers hid with the civilians so the US soldiers didn’t from where they got shot. This war later on turned into a civil war.