Yeah well, they were declaring victory all during their own decade in Afghanistan too...

The IS people have managed to steal a few Abrams tanks from the Iraqi military over the last few years. I am curious how they will fare against the newer top shelf Russian hardware. Not like I would be rooting for either side, but I am really curious from a tactical education standpoint how it will play out.

We would assume that a few Iraqis have training on the Abrams switched sides at some point, or veterans of the Egyptian military which has used the export model of the M1 will be able to provide or train nominally competent crew for the tanks.