Many Iraqi soldiers, especially those in the regular army, didn't fight at all, surrendering or running away.
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.
The biggest Russian forces outside the regular army are the interior-ministry troops, numbering about 250, 000, and about 200, 000 border guards.
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.
Pte Hetherington, 25, who was born in the US but grew up in Scotland, had only been in the regular Army for five months.
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.
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.
"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 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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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.
In Lebanon the regular army keeps keen guard at every exit from the country's 12 refugee camps, just in case someone with a gun might think of sneaking to the Israeli border.
The assassination of the democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993, sparked off the war between mostly Hutu rebel movements and the regular army, which is dominated by the Tutsi minority.
After years in the bush, the rebels are sick of fighting, horribly malnourished and surrendering in their thousands in the hope of a few bowls of maize porridge and a pay packet in the regular army.
He joined the TA 16 years ago after serving in the regular Army with the Coldstream Guards and Household Division from the age of 15, retiring as a senior drum major who led parades at prestigious events such as the Trooping of the Colour.
Dr Fox revealed that the regular army, which had escaped relatively unscathed with a reduction of only 7, 000 by 2015 (the year after it should cease combat operations in Afghanistan), would be cut by a further 5, 000 in 2015, and by 20% (from 101, 000 to 82, 000) by 2020.
As well as the ruthless interior-ministry troops that are Mr Milosevic's weapon of choice, the attackers included the regular Yugoslav army and armed Serb civilians.
Prominent Pakistani commentator Zafar Hilaly, who was also on the show, reacted by saying that while the mutilation of anyone was a "reprehensible act", it was "utter rubbish" to suggest that the regular soldiers of the Pakistan Army were involved.
At one point, Iraqi forces loyal to the government fired mortars at regular army forces that were abandoning the fight.
The helicopters lift off from the Kandahar airbase and head to Zargaran, stopping halfway, where more choppers carrying regular Afghan army soldiers join the operation.
Afghan Border Police spokesman Idris Momand said the Afghan forces, which held the disputed border outpost for several hours, retreated to their previous positions as regular Afghan National Army units rushed to the area to reinforce it.
They were pulled out of their regular Army units by the thousands.
Since that time, Judy has been a regular consultant working with the Army on a number of challenges that face its leaders and its fighting men and women.
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Afghan Border Police spokesman Idris Momand said the Afghan forces, which held the disputed border outpost for several hours, retreated to their previous positions later Thursday as regular Afghan National Army units rushed to the area to reinforce it.
So a growing army of angry taxpayers must calculate their taxes twice, first the regular way, then the AMT way, and pay the higher.
In a statement to MPs on the Army 2020 review on 5 July 2012, Mr Hammond revealed that the Army will lose 17 major units as it cuts 20, 000 regular soldiers by 2020.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
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