The United States Army has several elite forces. The Army Special Forces are sometimes referred to as "Green Berets." There are also Army Rangers, and Airborne units. For many years, these were the only army units that wore berets.
Iraq has been majority Shi'a for over 500 years and many Iraqi Shi'a fought in the Iraqi Army against Iran. However, Saddam Hussein and the higher echelons of the Iraq government were Sunna.
The Iraqi army is variously reported to number 197,000 or 238,000, all in Iraq.
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443 Coalition forces, 4124 are US.
The TA army is the Territorial Army. The TA is part of Britain's reserve forces. They are not part of the regular reserve army but they are the largest of the reserve forces. The TA supports the regular army members in many different aspects.
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, The fall of Iraq (The 4th largest standing army on earth) in 13 days and the fact that when the Soviet Union broke apart - their army was decimated with many people leaving. For several years Russia had no method of defending itself!!! And the fact that the United States was carrying on 2 wars a tthe same time - in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The forces that invaded Iraq in march 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom was a combination of troops from many countries. The Multinationals Force Iraq as it was called consisted of troops from these nations.The United StatesGreat BritainAustraliaPolandAlbaniaDenmarkSpainAfter the Invasion many other nations deployed troops to Iraq via the United Nations. A full list can be found by clicking on the Wikapedia link below under related links.
Because after the coalition forces had swept in through Kuwait in the South and flanked Saddam from the West, and had managed to surround Saddams army in Iraq, George Bush decided to withdraw the troops from Iraq instead of pushing into Iraq and annihlating Saddams army, which was their original objective. Because he didn't, Saddam ended up still in power, and caused many more deaths. It wasn't until the 2nd gulf war he was captured and executed.
The United Nations imposed an embargo on Iraq in 1990 following its invasion of Kuwait. The embargo aimed to pressure Iraq to withdraw its forces and to restore Kuwait's sovereignty. It included restrictions on trade and economic activities, significantly impacting Iraq's economy and access to essential goods. The embargo remained in place for many years, even after the Gulf War, due to ongoing concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and compliance with UN resolutions.
The figures are always changing, so it's hard to tell, but statistics show over a hundred soldiers die in Iraq everyday. According to iCasualties there have been 4349 U.S Army deaths between 2003-2009 in Iraq and 869 U.S Army deaths in Afganistan between 2001 and 2009
The Iraq war caused many deaths. According to iCasualties, in 2012 one soldier was killed, in February. However, between 2003 and 2012, 4,487 soldiers were killed.