The 2nd Corps was a corps of the
Iraqi Army
The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), or the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It was known as the Royal Iraqi Army up until the coup ...
, established before the Iran-Iraq War. It was initially located in the central regions of Iraq.
According to British military attaches' reports in 1977–78, the corps comprised the
3rd Armoured Division (Baiji/Tikrit), the 6th Armoured Division (Baqubah), and the
10th Armoured Division
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(Taji).
The
17th Armoured Division was in the field in the 2nd Corps sector in 1982–84 south of Khanaqin on the Iran-Iraq border; 2nd Corps was at that point headquartered at
Baqubah. One of the division's early commanders, possibly its first commander, was Brigadier General Saber 'Abd al-'Aziz. A later map in Malovany's book shows the 17th Armoured Division deployed between Tursaq and Zirbatiya, under 2nd Corps almost directly east of Baghdad, until circa September 1985.
In 1997, the corps had its headquarters at
Diyala and controlled the
3rd Armoured Division (6th Armoured Brigade; 12th Armoured Brigade; 8th Mech Brigade) as well as the
15th
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Mathematics
15 is:
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(HQ Amerli) and 34th Infantry Divisions (90th, 502nd, 504th Brigades).
In the leadup to the
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
, it included the 3rd Armoured Division, and 15th and 34th Infantry Divisions.
Along with the remainder of the Army, it was formally disestablished after the fall of
Saddam Hussein in line with
Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2
Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities signed by Coalition Provisional Authority on 23 May 2003, disbanded the Iraqi military, security, and intelligence infrastructure of President Saddam Hussein. It has since bec ...
.
References
External links and further reading
* Saddam's War: An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War - ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/saddams-war.pdf
* Stephen T. Hosmer, "Why the Iraqi Resistance to the Coalition Invasion Was So Weak", RAND, 2007 Santa Monica, CA; Arlington, VA; Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/mg544af.
*https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/2corps.htm
Corps
Army units and formations of Iraq
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