The 2nd Corps was a corps of the
Iraqi Army
The Iraqi Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية العراقية), also referred to as the Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي), is the ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It was formerly known as the Royal Iraq ...
, 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 (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 was Brigadier General Saber 'Abd al-'Aziz. A later map in Malovany's book shows the 17th Armoured Division deployed between Tursaq and Zirbatiya and the under-2nd Corps, almost directly east of Baghdad, 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 (HQ Amerli) and 34th Infantry Divisions (90th, 502nd, 504th Brigades).
In the lead up to the
2003 invasion of Iraq, 2nd corps included the 3rd Armoured Division, and 15th and 34th Infantry Divisions.
Along with the remainder of the Army, it was formally disband after the fall of
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...
in line with
Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2.
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.
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Corps
Army units and formations of Iraq
Disbanded military units and formations of Iraq in the Iraq War
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