Iraq Army, plans to buy 4x4 combat vehicles – Update 1note

Iraqi PM Haider Al-Abadi and Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi are said to have agreed to go ahead with a project to set up a new mechanized intervention brigade and get it supplied with new 4x4 combat vehicles. The following 362-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about the kind of required vehicles and what about the preferred types and alternatives. [Briefly reproduced in Tactical Weekly (Issue No 22/06 – February 6, 2015)]