On Thursday 12 July, a NATO source told EUROPE that Iraq could be seen “as quite a model type of cooperation (between EU and NATO) in defence capability building for partner countries”.
The previous day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had announced the launch of a non-combat mission for training and bolstering Iraqi capabilities, after the fashion of Alliance work in Afghanistan. He had said that the non-combat mission, launched further to a request from the Iraqi government,...