Knight et al - Honored, Not Contained

Preface

Three main types of hashd units

Local Hashd units that recruited locally and serve only in their home districts
Transplanted Hashd units that are mostly recruited from southern Iraq but have setteled down and claimed certain operational locations
Floating Hashd, often Iran support militias before 2014

Freeze the hashd expansion
- Recommends the buget to be frozen at current manpower of 135k and 2.58 trillion Iraqi dinars (2.16 bil)
- effect directive to remove hashd offices from the cities, where local police should have primacy
Iraq’s leaders believe the normaliation timeline is 5-10 years
Hamid al-Khafaf from sistani’s office issued a strong statement challening the government to apply the law
executive order 85 (2018), executive order 237 (2019)
- possible more non-public annexes
study should be done of the concept and implementation of reserve forces model with permanent and reservist cadres
- no rush to cement the structure now
need to prevent it from becoming a regime security division and domestic-suppression force
development of canton areas and redeployment from ‘hot’ areas