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Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic Influences (open access)

Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic Influences

This report analyzes the prospects for rebuilding an inclusive Iraqi security force that transcends Iraq’s various ethnic and sectarian communities. U.S. policy makers and Iraqi officials aim to create a unified Iraqi security force; however, the predominately Sunni Arab insurgency has hampered this effort, and many believe that the new Iraqi security agencies will ultimately be composed of mostly Shiite and Kurdish recruits with both communities separately maintaining their own militias.
Date: January 12, 2006
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
System: The UNT Digital Library