Kurdish Armed Forces

Recruitment
The Kurdish Armed Forces is an all-volunteer force. Both able-bodied men and women can join. it is not limited to Kurdish nationals, but also open to foreigners.

Foreign recruits
Foreigners, for their own reasons joined the Kurdish military. The quality of recruits vary from those with none to veterans from past conflicts such as the Gulf War.

Due to varying laws where joining foreign militaries can arise suspicion from their homeland, some volunteers are forced to use nom-de-guerres often in Kurdish.

Foreigners from the following countries currently/or have served in the Republic Kurdistan Armed Forces:
 * Australia
 * Canada
 * China
 * France
 * Germany
 * Israel
 * Japan
 * Netherlands
 * Portugal
 * Slovenia
 * Spain
 * United Kingdom
 * United States

Before 2066
The bulk of Kurdish military equipment started from Soviet equipment captured from the Iraqi Army in insurgencies and the American invasion of Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgencies allowed them to obtain more modernised equipment abandoned by the Iraqi Army, and those seized from ISIL.

The formation of Kurdistan has added new stock of equipment from the Syrian YPG, Byzantine PKK, and Iranian PDKI, also of Soviet builds. Being independent now allowed the direct flow of arms to the country. The armed forces was in high need of proper medical corps and communication units, commanders even forced to civilian cellphones.

2066 and after
The Kurdish Armed Forces' reforms started to standardise weapons systems towards complete replacement with NATO/PAMA and Iranian equipment.

Paramilitaries
Militia Peshmerga remain in service despite their illegal use in the constitution. Party-affiliated Peshmerga stay in their own regions, and the central military attempt to maintain the fragile balance.