Daily Alert Archive

February 26, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/international/middleeast/25TROO.html

Officers Training in Jordan to Lead New Iraqi Army

(New York Times) Thom Shanker - The Iraqi Army is a work in progress. Plans now call for fielding nine infantry brigades - about 40,000 men - by September. The first group of Iraqi officer candidates arrived quietly in December at a base set up outside Amman, Jordan, for three months of training as new leaders for the Iraqi military.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive