Mr.Bada Posted February 3, 2022 Posted February 3, 2022 The Iraqi army advanced in the annual global ranking of the most powerful armies in the world for the year 2022, as it ranked 34th globally. The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, said, in a statement posted on his Twitter account, that the classification was based on the report published by the American "Global Firepower" website, which specializes in classifying armies in the world according to strength.https://www.aljazeera.net/news/politics/2022/2/2/الجيش-العراقي-يحقق-قفزة-في-ترتيب-أقوى According to the statement, "the Iraqi army advanced by 23 ranks in the 2022 classification, after it was ranked 57th in the 2021 classification," and it ranked sixth in the Middle East after Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and ranked fourth in the Arab world. This classification comes based on 50 factors to determine this classification, and factors include military, financial, logistical and other factors to determine the improvement, decline, or stability of these armies annually.The Iraqi army is the oldest Arab armies in terms of establishment. It was established on January 6, 1921, with the first regiment led by a number of officers, bearing the name "Musa al-Kadhim Regiment", after Britain approved the request of King Faisal bin Hussein in this regard. This regiment was the first nucleus in the long march of the army, and was followed by two air and naval forces, to increase in strength until it became 4 divisions: the first and third in Baghdad, the second division in Kirkuk and the fourth in Diwaniyah.
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