Oh they?ll fight well enough, it just depends whom they are against, what the odds are and what the coercion force/threat and/or rewards are. Saddam drove the Iraqi Army in suicidal droves and columns against the Iranian Army and visa versa. Saddam squashed the Kuwaitis like so many blind mice and had no qualms about killing civillian Kurds by the hundreds using the Iraqi Army in all it's cowardly glory.
I?d look at the religious composition of the reluctant Battalion and the loyalties and/or cross compromising of whoever?s calling the Battalion shots. The Iraqi Shiite Moslems are into a Civil War now and if their historic tormentors; the Iraqi Sunni Moslems, haven?t got a clue about the incipient payback time at hand, then I guess I?ll be a monkey?s uncle.
Ha, maybe I?m one anyway, who knows, but this eventuality would make it a formal title. There it is: Scamp, MU, Esq. Nice ring to it I?d say.
Scamp