One regular army officer who managed to escape said the hostage-takers had opened fire indiscriminately.
Iraq's conscript regular army, expected by many to fold quickly and easily, instead has displayed considerable resistance.
Many Iraqi soldiers, especially those in the regular army, didn't fight at all, surrendering or running away.
Fortunately for him, his 120, 000-strong internal security force is bigger and better equipped than the regular army.
This reform mandates the creation of a militia parallel to the regular army.
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That would please the regular army, and would be an astute political move.
The men, many of whom were unable to join the regular Army, played a vital role in guarding vulnerable installations.
Mr Daly details the Sudanese government's savage response: its deployment of janjaweed militiamen with the regular army to slaughter civilians.
The biggest Russian forces outside the regular army are the interior-ministry troops, numbering about 250, 000, and about 200, 000 border guards.
At one point, Iraqi forces loyal to the government fired mortars at regular army forces that were abandoning the fight.
As Hamas evolves from a guerrilla force into a semi-regular army, so its military posture has shifted from offence to defence.
In 2011, a further reduction of 12, 000 was identified for the regular Army, as the government seeks to put greater emphasis on military reserves.
As the armed forces split, that could mean using the Republican Guard and special forces against the regular army and the protesters.
They were pulled out of their regular Army units by the thousands.
This will require strengthening its Reserve forces and their ability to mobilize and join regular army units, or to defend local municipalities.
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The government's plan to double the size of Britain's reserve forces while cutting the regular army has been criticised by several Tory MPs.
Pte Hetherington, 25, who was born in the US but grew up in Scotland, had only been in the regular Army for five months.
Many have guns and are prepared to use them perhaps 10, 000 people in a country where the regular army is only a little larger than that.
Not only have the special forces got more work to do, but the pool of potential recruits in the regular army has been drying up.
The main U.S. force will continue to press its advance to Baghdad and move against the paramilitary, regular army and Republican Guard forces when possible.
But the guard will strongly resist any changes to its structure that would compromise its ability to join the regular army on overseas combat missions.
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Mr Hammond wants to double the size of the Territorial Army from 15, 000 to 30, 000 while the regular Army's strength is cut by 20, 000 to 82, 000.
In fact, he had a defense consisting of at least five layers: the regular army, the Republican Guard, the Fedayeen, the secret police, and the insurgents.
"There are certain niche capabilities that we have with the Territorial Army that the regular army will draw upon when they feel the need, " he added.
The BBC's Helen Vesperini says that some of the rebel demands - such as the return to barracks by the regular army - will be unacceptable to government negotiators.
The 400 Talmud students whom Ben-Gurion exempted from army service have grown to 110, 000 able-bodied haredi men who have served neither in the regular army nor in the reserves.
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Their replacement with loyalists from the Revolutionary Guard, the ideologically zealous parallel to the regular army that also controls the baseej, has raised alarm even among conservatives of creeping militarisation.
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At one polling station, we found a unit of Iraqi special forces - with noticeably better equipment than regular army soldiers - were in charge of security, searching everyone going in.
Tripoli's government is also holding talks with two militia groups - the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade and the February 17 Brigade - on the possibility of joining the regular army, Al-Akkari said.
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