article_snippet.sent: Many of us do feel that us do have the skills and qualifications that can be used to benefit those in the region," said Ian Bradbury, a Canadian former soldier who is training Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: Bradbury set up 1st North American Expeditionary Forces (1st NAEF), a training body which, Bradbury says, is currently providing material support and training to the Peshmerga, whose name means "those who face death," in northern Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: Internal capacity building is by far the solution that you can put into a region that is suffering instability from conflict," Bradbury told CNN by phone from Bradbury base in Ottawa, Canada.
article_snippet.sent: Bradbury was prompted to establish the group after seeing "fairly significant gaps" in the support provided by the coalition forces for the Kurdish, Iraqi regular and militia ranged against ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: With coalition members keen to distance coalition members from calls for Western boots on the ground -- and little political appetite from overseas for risking Western troops in what many see as a sectarian conflict, Bradbury contends that the best-case scenario is exactly the kind of logistical support that organizations like 1st NAEF are providing.
article_snippet.sent: Providing noncombat backing, such as medical, weaponry, logistical and training assistance would appear, Bradbury thinks, to be the best way of supporting those Kurdish and Arab troops on the front. "
article_snippet.sent: Regardless of perceptions of any kind of us-against-them scenario, it absolutely is a world-against-ISIS issue that needs to take place and there definitely needs to be a global response," Bradbury said.