Why did the Iraqi army not put up much of a fight against the U.S.-led Coalition forces?
Al-Douri: After its entry into Kuwait, the Iraqi army had been stripped of its strength; the American administration and its allies went to extreme lengths to do it harm and to destroy its structure. Thereafter, it was under tight U.N.-imposed sanctions for 14 years. [At the start of the war] it faced aerial bombardment by the two greatest powers in the world supported by all the world’s evil forces. Had it not been for certain strategic and tactical errors, the army’s performance would have been better than it actually was. It was one of the greatest mistakes of the Iraqi leadership to accept formal engagement to the end of the road, despite the amazing disparity of forces. Had the leadership husbanded the army’s strength and means till the second page had been turned, Iraq would have been liberated and the occupation ended long before today. It is the Iraqi army that today is in charge of the planning and supervision of more than 95% of patriotic resistance operations against the occ
