Good read on Iraqi Army

[Tom Odom]

I would recommend this one to all as a good run down on training the Iraqi Army as the spear point for our strategy.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/iraq-army

[Jedburgh]

Here's a bit more - open source - detail on the subject, published a couple'a days ago by CSIS:

Iraqi Force Development: Coalition Reporting as of the Fall of 2005 (http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/051121_iraqiforcesrev.pdf)