v.1.0 June 24, 2001
Mr. Richard M. Bennett has written this historical orbat.
Provisional Iraq Army Orbat - Start of Gulf Ground War 1991|
3rd Corps (Southern Kuwait-Saudi border - coast- Kuwait City - Basrah) |
| Front line |
|
7th Infantry Division |
|
14th Infantry Division |
|
18th Infantry Division |
|
29th Infantry Division |
| Second line |
|
27th Infantry Division |
|
28th Infantry Division |
|
31st Infantry Division |
|
35th Infantry Division |
|
49th Infantry Division |
|
51st Infantry Division |
| Kuwait City |
|
11th Infantry Division |
|
15th Infantry Division |
|
19th Infantry Division |
Corps Armored Reserve |
|
3rd Armored Division |
|
1st Mechanized Division |
|
5th Mechanized Division |
|
4th Corps (western Kuwait-Saudi border-Iraq border area) |
|
Front line |
|
34th Infantry Division |
|
21st Infantry Division |
|
8th Infantry Division |
| Second line |
|
20th Infantry Division |
|
16th Infantry Division |
|
47th Infantry Division |
|
6th Armored Division |
|
Armored Reserve |
|
10th Armored Division |
|
17th Armored Division |
|
52nd Armored Division |
|
7th corps (inside southern Iraq-Saudi border) |
|
Front line |
|
48th Infantry Division |
|
30th Infantry Division |
|
25th Infantry Division |
|
Second line |
|
26th Infantry Division |
|
45th Infantry Division |
|
12th Armored Division |
|
Republican Guard |
|
Ist sub-Corps |
|
1st Hammurabi Armored Division |
|
2nd Al-Medinah Armored Division |
|
3rd Tawakalna Mechanized Division |
|
4th Al-Faw Motorized Infantry Division |
|
2nd sub-Corps |
|
5th Baghdad Mechanized Division |
|
6th Nebuchadnezzar Mechanized Division |
|
7th Adnan Motorized Infantry Division |
|
Units not committed to Kuwait operations |
|
2nd Infantry Division -1st corps-northern Iraq |
|
38th Infantry Division -1st corps-northern Iraq |
|
4th Infantry Division -5th corps-northern Iraq |
|
Al Abel RG Motorized Infantry Division - Northern Corps |
|
Al Nedaa RG Armored Division - Southern Corps |
(NB: some 25 divisions committed to Kuwait plus10 to Operational Reserve and 8 (RG) Strategic Reserve for possible counter-attack. 4 Divisions still to be identified.....some little doubt about allocation of units to particular corps as positions were changed days before Allied attack)
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