The role of the Popular Mobilization Forces in the Iraqi conflict and its influence as a non-state actor

该研究员提议研究伊拉克人民动员部队（PMF）在2014-2017年期间与伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国组织的斗争中的作用以及他们在ISIS后的作用，以及研究处理ISIS战俘的流行观点。对PMF的研究主要集中在军事和政治两个层面。如此大规模地动员民兵组成一支能够进行常规行动的军事力量，是伊拉克战争的一个独特特点。这位研究员研究了这些编队提供给国家的军事优势，无论是人力还是经济手段，以保持这种人力运作。人民动员部队成长为一支超越民兵性质的半正规军，在远离招募基地的地方开展常规行动，使用中重型至重型武器，同时招募和经营自己的地方民兵，因为伊拉克南部地区是PMF在当地边界外作战的主要人力来源。在当地作战通常是民兵的特点。PMF的分散指挥性质与伊拉克军队的典型风格形成鲜明对比，就这一点而言，大多数阿拉伯中东军队的指挥过于集中，并证明了PMF编队在战场上的灵活性比伊拉克军队和内政部单位更大。

The fellow proposed doing research on the role of the popular mobilization forces (PMF) in Iraq in the struggle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria organization between 2014-2017 and their role post-ISIS, as well as researching popular views for dealing with ISIS prisoners of war. The research on the PMF concentrated on both military and political levels. The mobilization on this grand scale of a conglomeration of militias in one military forces capable of conducting conventional operations was a unique feature in the Iraq war. The fellow looked at the advantages in military terms that these formations provided to the stated whether it was manpower or the economic means to keep this manpower operating. The Popular Mobilization forces grew into a semi-regular army that transcended the nature of a militia by waging conventional operations far from recruitment bases and using medium-heavy to heavy weaponry, while at the same time recruiting and operating their own that operated its own local militias, given the southern region in Iraq as the main source of manpower of the PMF that fought outside their local boundaries. Fighting locally is usually what characterizes a militia. A decentralized nature of command in the PMF has contrasted with the typical style overly centralized command in the Iraqi Army, and for that matter most of Arab Middle Eastern armies, and proved beneficiary to the achievement of increasing flexibility in the battlefield by most of PMF formations compared to the Iraqi army and ministry of interior units.