Transpose to Iraq the French model of adapted military service (SMA), to bring back to civilian life tens of thousands of militiamen idle since their victory against the jihadists of Daesh. The idea was born in the head of Air Division General Frédéric Parisot, who commanded the civil-military actions of the Western anti-Daesh coalition in Iraq.
It was in 2018, more than fifty years after the creation of the SMA, this military device for professional integration, intended for young people from overseas. "The Iraqi authorities welcomed him favorably," said the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Paris.
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Four years after being proclaimed in Mosul, the territorial "cafifat" of Daesh had just been defeated by Iraq and the international coalition. When it was created in June 2014, tens of thousands of barefoot young people answered the call of Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the highest Shiite spiritual authority in Iraq, to enlist in Mobilization units. popular,
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