Iraqi Army:
While the "Iraqi Army is making fitful progress towards becoming a reliable and disciplined fighting force loyal to the national government, [...] Significant questions remain about whether they will carry out missions on behalf of national goals instead of a sectarian agenda." By the end of 2006, the Report estimates that there will be 138,000 members of the Iraqi Army. Several "significant challenges" facing the Iraqi Army were also noted:

• lack of leadership
• lack of equipment
• lack of personnel - leave given liberally to soldiers with no penalties for going AWOL
• lack of logistics and support

Iraqi Police:
The report describes the police as "substantially worse" than the army, lacking the capacity or legal authority to conduct criminal investigations. "Iraqi police cannot control crime, and they routinely engage in sectarian violence, including the unnecessary detention, torture and targeted execution of Sunni Arab civilians." The police currently number approximately 135,000. "There are ample reports of Iraqi police officers participating in training in order to obtain a weapon, uniform, and ammunition for use in sectarian violence."

Facilities Protection Services
Each department or ministry of the Iraqi government has an armed security unit charged with guarding that ministry's infrastructure. "[T]hese units total roughly 145,000 uniformed Iraqis under arms." These forces have "questionable loyalties" with "[s]everal Iraqis simply refer[ring] to them as militias," and a senior U.S. official describing them as "incompetent, dysfunctional, or subversive."