This article refers to the former Iraqi Armed Forces under the Ba'ath Regime of Saddam Hussein. For the actual Iraqi Army please see Iraqi Self-Defence Forces. The military of Iraq in the early 90's fielded the sixth largest army, held the fourth largest air force and had the fourth largest military expenditure in the world falling behind only the United States, the Soviet Union and China.
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| - This article refers to the former Iraqi Armed Forces under the Ba'ath Regime of Saddam Hussein. For the actual Iraqi Army please see Iraqi Self-Defence Forces. The military of Iraq in the early 90's fielded the sixth largest army, held the fourth largest air force and had the fourth largest military expenditure in the world falling behind only the United States, the Soviet Union and China.
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| - This article refers to the former Iraqi Armed Forces under the Ba'ath Regime of Saddam Hussein. For the actual Iraqi Army please see Iraqi Self-Defence Forces. The military of Iraq in the early 90's fielded the sixth largest army, held the fourth largest air force and had the fourth largest military expenditure in the world falling behind only the United States, the Soviet Union and China. Iraq was considered by far the strongest regional power of the Middle East and potentially a future great power in the world. Specialists consider the fact that if the Great Middle East War didn't happened the Iraqi army would have become the 4th largest by 1999. The equipment of the Iraqi army ranged from old models to state of the art equipment. However, most of the older tanks, APCs, IFVs and other old but still in use military equipment underwent a major modernization program during the 80's making the Iraqi army a largely modern force by the time of the war. The Republican Guard was an elite force within the Iraqi military. It was an all volunteer military force which received the best training, weapons and equipment the country possessed. Examples of this were the fact many of best equipment held by Iraq such as the Asad Fahd and Asad Babil II tanks and the SA-10d/e (S-300PM) was restricted only to the RG. The RG also held total control over Iraq's ballistic missile capabilities. The Iraqi Popular Army was a paramiliary army composed of civilian volunteers to help quell internal opposition and counter-balance any coup attempts by the regular Iraqi Army. They were poorly trained and equipped in the sense they weren't intended to serve as an attacking force but rather as internal security or rear line forces. Nevertheless, their presence avoided an early downfall of Saddam Hussein at the hands of Shi'a and Kurdish rebellious factions that surfaced under the crescent strain put on the Iraqi military for the war. The Iraqi Air force was primarily composed of modernised old aircraft imported from Warsaw Pact countries, China and France during the early 80's yet it possessed a considerable amount of modern fighters acquired in the late 80's and early 90's. The ability of the Iraqi pilots was the best among all Arab air forces in the world being able to fight on par with the IAF and the USAF which possessed arguably the world's best trained pilots at the time, this was thanks to extensive expenditure on pilot training following difficulties faced in the short Iran-Iraq war where Iranian pilots with greater ability dealt considerable casualties to the IQAF. The Iraqi Navy was by far the least prominent branch of the Iraqi military, while it was armed with some of the most modern missile boats of the time and a small force of submarines, the fact Iraq didn't share water borders with Israel and the massive difference in power between the Iraqi Navy and the coalition naval forces reduced the former's role to a small yet notable role in Operation Jihad. Overall, Iraq displayed a formidable military force that despite its impressive capabilities was no match for the combined forces from the militaries of 32 countries including the United States, United Kingdom and France.
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