تحديات مؤسسات الأمن و الدفاع في الحكومة الإتحادية العراقية

Abstract EN

The Iraqi military and security services are facing challenges at strategic and tactical levels, which needs a review of the comprehensive strategy for Iraqi national security.

This paper comes at a critical period in which the state seeks to extend security, achieve state prestige.

At the same time, it prevents the threat of ISIS and the increasing influence of PMF's.

In addition, this analysis aims to identify the nature of the challenges of the Iraqi military and security services, then so review the timeline of security events that how it affected the development of the Iraqi armed forces capacity.

Also the U.S forces withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, and the ISIS period after 2014.

The main point we discussed, firstly; the "structural challenges" related to the establishment and construction problems, which limited the growth and development of defense and security establishments.

Secondly, the functional challenges related to the implementation of the tasks of the security and defense services, which, deepen to the poor performance of the functions of the military and security establishment