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Cultural factors in wars and Insurgencies

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Kenneth Pollack, who wrote 'Arabs at War' and more recently 'Armies of Sand', looked into this topic. One of the proposed solutions (other than completely dismantling Arab armies from the ground and starting from scratch, which is far tougher to do) was the establishment of more local-based militias. These militias would be state-sponsored and would cooperate with each other. His theory ended up being right with the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces. Although they were only formed as recently as 2014, they have proven to be effective and have even outclassed the standard Iraqi Army