Summary
Late last year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised a fuss about the discovery of 50,000 "ghost soldiers" in his country's army – he vowed to stamp out corruption and improve his military's ability to fight ISIS jihadis.
American official Paul Bremer was widely blamed for dissolving the Iraqi army back in 2003 but in the more than 10 years since then, the Iraqi authorities have done nothing to reverse this catastrophic decision.
For decades, the Iraqi military was considered the Arab world's most powerful national army.
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