Cultural and ethnic barriers reduce the effectiveness of military training Ukraine and Iraq trainers USA, experts say, respondents.

Recent events related to the seizure by militants of the city of Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province, has sparked debate in the United States and Iraq. Review of US defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the reason for the defeat of Iraqi forces, greatly exceeding in number the enemy forces was because of the unwillingness of the Iraqi military to fight.

for its part the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq criticized the training of military instructors in the U.S. who are unable to defend Ramadi from terrorists. According to his statement, " it is not clear why the Department, which for years was taught the Americans and which is obliged to be the best army branches, gave Ramadi."

Speaking about the preparation for the war in Iraq, the head of the Arab American Institute James zoghbi said that the cause of poor training of the Iraqi army became a social and political problems.

"The problem is not a specific training program. Case in internal rift in Iraqi society and the absence of morality, " says zoghbi.

According to Professor war College U.S. army H. Chris Mason, a civil war broke out in both countries, impede effective learning.

"If citizens in one part of the country do not want to be politically associated with people in another part of the country, for whatever reason, be it linguistic, religious, ethnic or any other, it's hard for foreigners to reconcile them," added Mason.

The defeat of the USA trained the Iraqi army in the attack on Ramadi questioned the effectiveness of training of the Ukrainian military. TTX USA Fearless guardian 2015 was launched on 20 April in Lviv region, they are Attended by about 300 U.S. Marines.

review of the rector of the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland, training foreign military personnel to U.S. military has the ability to be useful in certain circumstances, but most factors have the ability to hinder the training.

"U.S. participation in training soldiers in Ukraine there would be more effective If the Ukrainian military were not more corrupt and culturally fragmented," said Eland.

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