The Defensive Paradigm of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq and the Degeneration of Divergent Politics

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Abdolreza Alishahi, Zahra Hossein Pour, Majid Rafiei, Zahra Pakzad

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Published: 15 July 2019 | Article Type :

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The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the People's Mobilization Committee (PMC) and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias that are mostly Shia Muslim groups, but also including Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Yazidi individuals as well.It can now be claimed that Shabbi's survival as a popular ideological structure actually filled the gap caused by the "ineffectiveness of the organized structure of the occupation in the post-fallen period of Saddam" and became an intrinsic, efficient and capable force in the field Security has been a development for Iraqi society and government in Iraq.This present article seeks to explain that it is important to rely on people in the military security arena to be more efficient than dependence on militarysecurity security, and therefore, The Popular Mobilization Forces, despite some challenges, has had great achievements in the military security scene. In so far as the ineffectiveness of Washington's military-security approaches was more than predictive and led to security building on ideological and popular beliefs.

Keywords: The Popular Mobilization Forces, Authority, Basic Security, US Security Approach, ISIS Supporters.

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Abdolreza Alishahi, Zahra Hossein Pour, Majid Rafiei, Zahra Pakzad. (2019-07-15). "The Defensive Paradigm of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq and the Degeneration of Divergent Politics." *Volume 2*, 2, 1-8