Your situation was and still way better than ours
1-you have integrated and stable regime
we don't
2-you have big well trained and armed to teeth army
we don't
3-you have big airforce good equipped
we are not
4-You have almost independent decision and unity
we don't
5-you are fully supported by the nato and the region regimes plus some fanatics
we are not
So you should perform better than us yet you didn't in the first confrontation your guys ran away
while our guys simply been back stabbed by the locals and krg we lost mosul not because our soldiers didn't fight and ran away they rather sold out spicher is a clear example.
But our PM forces since day one beat isis in any front they didn't lose one battle at all.
all these are fact you can fool yourself not taking them seriously but make no mistake in any confrontation with Iraq your opponent will be the Pm forces not the army our army still infiltrated by your guys in Bagdad.
1. DAFUQ operation started 1 month after coup with tens of thousands being purged thats far away from stable.
2. indeed however when ur whole army is purged then it will get quite difficult. For example a lot of people compare Operation Euphrathes shield to the soviet invasion to finnland.
3. However the airforce suspiciously didnt fly many sorties. No gunships were used either.
4. Im not sure about that. Erdogan has quite a lot of influence.
5. Nope, despite us hosting many of their planes they didnt give us any support in ES.
We did perform better lol the first confrontation resulted in ISIS completly retreating from jarablus, the ones who constantly ran away are the FSA freaks and their ping pong battles.