The research aims to demonstrate the comparison between military and social
tunnels and the impact on sustainable development in Iraq – a case study for the period (2004-
2022) by building a standard model that shows the impact of military spending, as well as social
tunnels and selected economic variables.
In this research, the researcher relied on the extrapolation process mainly, which is based on
monitoring the comparison between military and social tunnels and its impact on sustainable
development in Iraq during the period (2004-2033), and then there may be another scientific
approach that we will resort to in the course of our treatment of the issue, which is the analytical
method with following some standard procedures to understand the nature of the data and
variables that affect the crisis.
One of the most prominent results of the research is that there is definitely a cut in the data of
the military agreement for Iraq, as the researcher could not insist on the data of the Pre-year
military agreement (2003), this sector is both in the material and financial aspect, and there is a
general trend of increasing military agreement in Iraq starting from the year (2003), until
Statistics showed that Iraq occupies the fourth place at the level of Arab countries in the
agreement on the military, as it became clear through the standard model used in the research,
that there is no common integration -- The military agreement does not affect sustainable
development in Iraq, and that increasing sustainable development leads to military spending, as
shown by the results of the cranger causality test, and the result was that spending on social
protection witnessed a remarkable development during the study period (2004- 2022), which
was represented by an increase in the number of families covered by the network and an
increase in the amount of funds allocated by the state to the network, and this was reflected
positively on the covered groups of society, so the development rate for the total period was
positive by (31.97%), but that percentage was low measured by gross domestic product and
therefore did not contribute to reducing poverty rates and improving the standard of living of
individuals, the results also showed that there is a causal relationship to the development of
education as inputs and outputs by increasing the volume of spending on the educational sector,
health and in the direction of On the other hand, increasing social spending will lead to raising
the efficiency and skills of community members and then lead to contributing to raising the
rates of sustainable development in Iraq.
The study recommended: There should be more attention in the military sector at the level of
studies, research, statistics and data to avoid the problems of
represents an obstacle to the spread of corruption in this sector, as well as work to increase the
volume of allocations and spending on the education sector because of its positive importance
in improving the skills of individuals and raising productivity and reflecting this on achieving
sustainable development, through supporting and developing the health sector, as increasing
spending on health will lead to increased production and then the transition of channels of
influence to sustainable development, that is, the impact is positive between them, as well as
conducting a package of economic policies aimed at raising the welfare of The positive impact
will then be transferred to the sustainable development of the state, especially in the field of job
creation, reducing income inequality between individuals, providing care and a dignified free
life.