ORHA Fact Sheet
Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance
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Ministry of Defense

Overall Information

The Ministry of Defense will be combined with the Ministry of Military Industrialization to be called the Ministry of Defense and Military Industrialization. It will have both a civilian and military component. The civilian component will be responsible for buying equipment and overall military funding. The military will be responsible for manpower and liaisons.

Four Key Goals
  1. Standing up the physical components at Uday’s Palace. While the structure is badly damaged, the generator and pipes remain intact.
  2. Rebuilding the Ministry from the ground up by bringing thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers back to active duty.
  3. Paying these soldiers who haven’t been paid in over three months
  4. Start planning for the Iraqi Military International Conference in Tampa suggested for mid-June.

Actions Taken:

Three separate groups of officers have been contacted (one of the officers was a comptroller) and they have a roster of thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers who got the fliers dropped during the war and than capitulated. The first possible media event is paying these soldiers twenty dollars each to join an interim defense force. Their primary purpose would be border patrols and joint patrols with coalition forces.

Command Message - The Iraqi people will run and lead their military with the purpose of defending Iraq.