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International Security Assistance Force (Joint Command).

Operation Barracuda (Central African Republic 1979).

Shaba I (Zaire 1977) / Inter-African Force after Shaba II (Zaire 1978-79).

Other wars that Moroccan troops have taken part in include the Ifni War, against Spain, and Sand War, against Algeria. But the Moroccan Armed Forces were mostly notable in fighting a 25-year war against the POLISARIO, an Algerian backed rebel national liberation movement seeking the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco (Western Sahara War). The Armed Forces also took part in the Gulf War with an infantry batallion and a Mechanized Battalion in the Tariq and Omar Task Forces, contributing in the frontline as in the Battle of Khafji. About 2,000 French officers and NCOs remained in Morocco on short term contracts, until crash training programs at the military academies of St-Cyr, Toledo and Dar al Bayda produced sufficient numbers of Moroccan commissioned officers.The Royal Moroccan Army fought during the Six-Day War and on the Golan front during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 (mostly in the battle for Quneitra) and intervened decisively in the 1977 conflict known as Shaba to save Zaire’s regime. This number was augmented by approximately 5,000 former guerrillas from the “Army of Liberation” (see below). Fourteen thousand Moroccan personnel from the French Army and ten thousand from the Spanish Armed Forces transferred into the newly formed armed forces. The Royal Armed Forces were created on, after the French Protectorate was dissolved. A para-military gendarmerie, known as the “Mehal-la Jalifianas” and modelled on the French goumieres, was employed within the Spanish Zone. Moroccan Regulares, together with the Spanish Legion, made up Spain’s elite Spanish Army of Africa. After the end of World War II, Moroccan troops formed part of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps engaged in the First Indochina War from 1946 to 1954.The Spanish Army also made extensive use of Moroccan troops recruited in the Spanish Protectorate, during both the Rif War of 1921-26 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. The two world conflicts saw Moroccan units earning the nickname of “Todesschwalben” (death swallows) by German soldiers as they showed particular toughness on the battlefield.

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During World War II more than 300,000 Moroccan troops (including goumier auxiliaries) served with the Free French forces in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany.

Morocco, is seen as a guardian of maritime commerce along the Gibraltar Strait and a nation that has contributed in different UN and NATO missions.ĭuring the period of the French protectorate of Morocco (1912–1956) large numbers of Moroccans were recruited for service in the Spahi and Tirailleur regiments of the French Army of Africa. Today, Morocco has a moderate government in which the monarch, challenges militant ideology and encourages Islamic scholars to dispel the twisted theology that produces mass murder. The Kingdom of Morocco has much to be proud of for example, it has been a long-time Middle East ally to the United States, being the first country to recognize the United States as a nation in 1777, King Mohammed Bin Youssef’s Mohammed V’s refusal to surrender Moroccan Jews to the Vichy (pro-Nazi) French Government and certain death in Nazi concentration camps, and the role payed during WWII with the Allies.