F IRAQ WARRIOR + MP SPLIDER (2FIG)

United States Armed Forces ) are currently the most powerful and strongest troops in the world, with an active staff of approximately 1.36 million people and a budget of $ 686 billion in 2018. One of their most important components is the ground army, i.e. the United States Army, in which 476,000 soldiers in the line served in 2017. The service responsible for maintaining order, prosecuting common crimes and maintaining appropriate discipline in the US Army, as well as other types of armed forces, is the US Military Police Corps (MP or US MP for short). US MP is also used for convoy cover, reconnaissance activities and can be used both domestically and overseas. This service was established in September 1941. Its units were used on a large scale during both wars in Iraq (1990-1991 and 2003), as well as in the course of operations in Afghanistan (from 2001). In Iraq, the MP was also responsible for supervising the prisoners of Saddam Hussein's army. The MP soldiers wear the standard US Army uniform, which becomes the Army Combat Uniform, and their distinguishing element is Velcro glued on the right frame with the letters "MP". The primary weapons of the MP soldier are most often the M4 assault rifle and the M9 Beretta pistol, but MP soldiers also use many other types of small arms. As a curiosity, it can be mentioned that a single MP brigade is most often assigned to the army corps.The intervention in Iraq in 2003, also known as the Second Gulf War, from a purely military point of view, was a complete success. However, almost immediately after its official end in May 2003, many problems began to pile up before the American units. First of all, the American command engaged significantly fewer forces in the Second Gulf War than in the conflict of 1990-1991, which resulted in the inability of these forces to fulfill their cleaning and "occupation" tasks. This in turn meant that for the first week after the end of the war in Iraq, there was far-reaching administrative and organizational chaos, which facilitated the seizure of weapons (often abandoned by the regular Iraqi army) by all types of partisans, terrorist organizations and all kinds of organizations opposing the presence of foreign troops. in Iraq. It is worth adding that after May 2003, the entire Iraq was divided into four zones: northern, central, south-central and southern, where coalition troops composed of Americans, British, Poles and soldiers from many other countries were stationed. The so-called the process of normalization and stabilization of Iraq. The civil administration of Iraq, in turn, until June 2004 was in the hands of the American diplomat Lewis Paul Bremer. From that moment on, it passed into the hands of the Iraqi interim government headed by Iyad Allawi. However, realistically speaking, in 2003-2011 there was a guerrilla war in Iraq, which destabilized the country and hindered any modernization or democratic processes. In its course, American troops lost about 3,500 killed and about 52,000 wounded. The lowest number of Iraqi civilians killed is about 23,000 people, the highest estimate is in hundreds of thousands of people ...