Iraqi Total Force Mobilization

Montrose Toast ^ | 29 August 2009 | DJ Elliott

[DJ Elliott]

In August 2007 and June 2008, I wrote monster articles projecting Iraqi Security Forces planned development by 2012 and, in some cases, beyond. I am not going to do that this year. Instead I have been writing separate articles addressing the components of the Iraqi Security Forces:

June 30, 2009: Commandos in the ISF June 30, 2009: Iraqi Special Operations Force June 30, 2009: The Iraqi Emergency Response Brigade July 15, 2009: Kurdish Regional Guards: The best OPSEC in Iraq July 20, 2009: Iraqi Federal Police: More than a name change? July 26, 2009: Low on the Iraqi MoI Totem Pole: Department of Border Enforcement July 29, 2009: Iraqi Facilities Protection Force July 31, 2009: Iraqi Aviation: Status and predicted force August 9, 2009: Iraqi Praetorians August 14, 2009: The Iraqi Navy August 19, 2009: Iraqi Army: Now and in the future August 25, 2009: Iraqi Logistics and Training

Iraqi Total Force Mobilization is the last subject of this series of articles.

Since the Iraqi Army does not have a reserve, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) paramilitary police forces augment them in a wartime mobilization. The Iraqi Security Forces include elements that remain employed in internal security as well as elements that augment the Iraqi Army. Of the above forces, only the regular Iraqi Police, Facility Protection Service, and the Oil Police Directorate would not be normally subject to employment against an invading force as part of a corps-level command. However, those forces would be responsible for key facilities in the rear area.

The total Iraqi Security Forces identified as existing, forming, or planned equate to 46 divisions. They are broken down into the following categories: