defenses on the way into the city. and found them basically lightly defended, not even with their best abrams tanks out there. they didn't even have the abrams tanks throughout. what is in your estimation wrong with the iraqi military? >> it's a combination of things. i think the most important two iraqs are firstly that a lot of iraqi soldiers don't necessarily want to fight for the iraqi government that is currently constituted. so they're basically bailing and leaving positions which they probably have the equipment to defend. but they just don't want to. and then the second issue is over about the last six months, isis, the islamic state of iraq and the levant has been building alliances with the former baathist regime. and a lot of the people that were senior within the iraqi military have been reached by that group of people. so that there is potentially some issues of loyalty and competence within the senior leadership within the iraqi military. >> is there any chance for the iraqi military as it currently