ISIS -approx 10-20k barely trained lightly armed. Iraqi Army approx 250k

[linuxman]

7. Well...

For starters, Isis and the Iraqi army aren't lining up on opposite sides of a golf course and taking turns shooting volleys at each other.

Isis is a smaller force, but it is operating unconventionally.

Besides that, groups like Isis tend to rely more on individual self sufficiency ( in other words, the man who shoots the pkm at the Iraqi army is also the mechanic and the man in charge of foraging for food and supplies within his small group.) the numbers listed for the Iraqi army do not indicate actual combat strength, but rather the number of combat troops along with support personnel.

Arguing that the Iraqi army should be kicking their asses based on a numbers breakdown is silly and simplistic in the extreme.