Ralph Peters: The ‘Real Challenge’ in Iraq Will Be ‘to Herd the Cats’

‘This is very complex, it’s very deadly and we don’t know how long this is going to take’

PETERS: "Well the challenge is always enormous in urban warfare with its -- with the complexity of the battlefield, civilians in place and there are still up to a million citizens, left -- Iraqi citizens left in Mosul, not sure exactly how many. So, it's ugly, it's difficult. But the real challenge here for us in our role is to herd the cats."

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