Analysis of the Iraqi Strategic Environment from a Security Perspective

Abstract

           The issue of studying security environment in Iraq has a special strategic importance, being the field that suffer from a wide margin (range) of challenges, matter that reflects on the environment of social stability, and affect the economic, social, and political reality in Iraq negatively, which are:

A complicated group of components and elements that organize geography, economics, and politics, in addition to another factors that have major effect on  the security scene. 

               It can be said that the strategic environment of Iraq, like its counterpart in other countries, organizes structures and components that contribute in shaping the general features of the security environment process inside Iraq, which consists of a group of entities, installations and pillars with fixed and changing features at the same time, which constitute the effect and crystallization of the features of the security environment architecture starting from The impact of the strategic elements that regulate (geography, economics, politics, sociology, and demography- population), in conjunction with the security elements and challenges that blow –storm- the security scene, especially in the recent period, which revolve around (proliferation of weapons, terrorism, drugs, Corruption, crime), as the Iraqi security institutions constitute a dynamic factor in the Iraqi security scene from the impact factor, as it is the responsibility of any healer of any breach and challenge to the security environment, centered on (the Internal Security Foundation, the intelligence establishment, the military establishment, the popular mobilization force, in addition to The Special Operations institutions), so we find that the structural composition of the security environment in Iraq is of multiple and complex elements, as it significantly affected the turbulent security scene.