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Originally Posted by MIKEMUN
Whike it might be a good thing,I do not think ad hoc units should be encouraged. They need to be either somehow assimilated in the military or disbanded. While they are useful,they are dangerous in the end. They could use unacceptable methods and might be at loggerheads with the government simply because they do not answer to the military. And this kind of units might spell trouble for the government if they become dissiliusioned. I might be wrong,but then I am not military..
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Agreed. By promoting this, one is only asking for trouble down the line, as a fracture can occur between the quasi-warlords and the government, and that spells civil war. On the other hand, the Iraqi Army does require fighting spirit. Perhaps incorporating them into the army as local militias, answerable to, and supported by, the military, but ultimately subject to their own discipline and method of operating? Much like the continental army's relationship to the militia during the American revolution.