Editing Motor Rifle Company (section)

===IRL===

[[File:150303-calbraith-iraq-army-tease fescam.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Modern hajis, because equipping folks with questionable loyalty is a great idea.]]

By 1985, the Iraq Mechanized Infantry Company, with it's soviet level of training, either represents an Iraqi force at the start of the conflict, or more likely the Republican Guard units being trained in Western Iraq for the eventual counterattack in 1987. The only truly mechanized units left in the Iraqi army were the Republican Guard forces, mostly because as losses mounted and replacements were not easily available, things broke down and were never recovered. Purchases were starting as funding from the Gulf States allowed the Iraqis to make foreign arms purchases once again, but in general the Iraqi army of this period was by no means a mechanized force in reality. 

The conscript based Iraqi army was struggling to do anything at all really, and the stalemate was being held to by both sides at this point in the war. The Iraqis had spent their best troops in a meat grinder in 1980 and 1981 trying to seize and siege several Iranian cities, and lost way more than they gained. The Iraqi forces were only really effective fighting in the defense, from static positions - maneuver was practically unknown. Executions for minor infractions were common, and about 80% of the army was Shia, and not enthusiastic about being there, but had to fight or be killed either by their officers or the Iranians. Really, Battlefront, a better model for the base line Iraqi's would be to have morale issues even worse than the Czechs.

Historically speaking, the major issues with the Iraqi army wouldn't be solved without major outside assistance and the Iranians pissing everyone off enough that they couldn't buy new equipment. Iraq would be rocked hard in '86, and end up having to resort to absolutely insane amounts of chemical weapon use in '87 and '88 to force the Iranians back and out of Iraqi territory - which for most of the war had been under Iranian control. By this point the Iraqi conscript army was a more professional force probably better deserving the statline assigned to them here, as training and equipment improved over time. This army though had also ballooned in size and expense to the fourth largest in the world, something that would be partially responsible for the 1991 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. 

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