Iraq’s Kurdistan Region now operates as two separate administrations with no contract between them, even though both still sit within a single federal region. How is this possible when, just over a month ago, the KRG announced the unification of its armed forces? As we reported in late September, the unification was a sham that institutionalised the KDP-PUK territorial division. The new structure has no clear parallel in any other army in the world. In practice, it created two armies with largely separate chains of command. Each has its own accounting sub-department, and these operate only nominally under a broader accounting department. The arrangement keeps the KDP and PUK hierarchies largely intact. It gives each regional command sweeping control over appointments and spending, including the power to appoint its own division commanders and other key officers. As a result, it may make a single army for the region harder to build. https://thenationalcontext.com/peshmerga-unification-codifies-the-kdp-puk-military-divide/?fbclid=IwY2xjawVhArRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMXFVbzlwNE1udjBWMGFzc1BzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfClflz67P3j5SnTAex9_jfQYx7MaWu6c3xMJUKtig3y321lJpYN0L0EdeYrw_aem_lFoo4B2a6Kw7SHs1mBS3_Q The National Context Peshmerga Unification Codifies the KDP-PUK Military Divide The Kurdistan Region's new military structure keeps the KDP and PUK hierarchies intact, gives each sweeping control over appointments and spending, and
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