TY - JOUR AU - Mohammed Ali Salman Salman , Prof. Dr. Muhammad Fuad Bin Othman, PY - 2021/01/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Disbanding the Iraqi Armed Forces in 2003 and the Suppression of Former Iraq Military Officers JF - PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology JA - J Arch.Egyptol VL - 18 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://www.archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/6392 SP - 4231-4244 AB - <p>The Iraqi armed had been disintegrated during the operation of invading Iraq by the United States in 2003. The problem of this study is to discover and analyze the reasons and the objectives behind the disbanding of the Iraqi Armed Forces in the aftermath of the Iraq-War 2003. The effects of such disbanding on the security of Iraq which had been left with no professional and experienced military institution. This study finds that the Iraqi Armed Forces had been disbanded not by any order, but by the war itself and because the desertion of the soldiers and commanders from the battlefields. The lack of effective armed forces has affected the security, politics and the state building of Iraq. Several armed groups had played roles in the ethno-sectarian disputes which weakened the internal and external politics of Iraq.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -