Military of Morocco

The Royal Armed Forces of Morocco is the sum of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Morocco 

It was founded in 1956 (with the exception of the Royal Navy, founded in 1960), after the independence of Morocco in France and Spain. Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which began in 1912, the defense force of the country was a regular army and militia Makhzen less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes. These Berber militias were able to resist the French and Spanish armies for over 30 years. 

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During the period of the French protectorate in Morocco (1912-1956) a large number of Moroccans were recruited for service in the French and spahi sharpshooter regiments of the Army of Africa. During World War II, more than 300,000 Moroccan soldiers (including auxiliary goumier) served with the Free French Forces in North Africa, Italy, France and Austria. The two world wars saw Moroccan units earning the nickname "Todesschwalben" (death swallows) by German soldiers, and particularly fussy on the battlefield. At the end of World War II, the Moroccan troops took part in the French expeditionary force 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 1921-1926 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Regulars Morocco and the Spanish Legion, formed by the elite of Spain Spanish Army of Africa. A paramilitary gendarmerie, known as the "Mehal-la Jalifianas" and the model of the French Goumieres was used in the Spanish area. 

The Royal Armed Forces were created May 14, 1956, after the French protectorate was dissolved. 

Fourteen thousand Moroccan soldiers of the French army and ten thousand of the Spanish Armed Forces transferred to the newly formed armed forces. This number was increased by approximately 5,000 former guerrillas of the "Liberation Army" (see below). About 2,000 officers and NCOs remained in French Morocco with short-term contracts, until crash training in military academies of Saint-Cyr, Toledo and Dar al Bayda produced sufficient numbers of Moroccan officials. 

Four years later, the Royal Moroccan Navy was established in 1960. 

The Royal Moroccan Army fought 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 I save regime of Zaire. The armed forces also took a symbolic part in the Gulf War, among other Arab armies. 

But the Moroccan armed forces were for the most significant in the fight against a war of 25 years against the Polisario, an Algerian rebel movement supported national liberation seek independence of Western Sahara from Morocco. Since the mid-1980s Morocco has been largely keep Polisario troops by building a huge wall of the berm or sand (the Moroccan Wall), with an army roughly the same size as all the Saharawi population , containing within it the economically useful parts of Western Sahara (Bou Craa, Laayoune, Smara, etc..) This war has stagnated without side able to achieve decisive improvements, but the artillery and sniper attacks the guerrillas continued, and Morocco was economically and politically strained by the war. 

On 14 July 1999, the Moroccan armed forces took part in the parade on Bastille Day on the Champs Elysees, which was exceptional for a non French army, at the invitation of former French President Jacques Chirac. 

He is currently involved in several peacekeeping missions: MONUC, UNOCI, EUFOR, KFOR and MINUSTAH. Previous peacekeeping missions included the Somalia operation, where the Moroccan staff served as part of UNOSOM I, UNITAF, and monitoring of UNOSOM II. 

Liberation Army: 

Liberation Army (Berber: n Aserdas Uslelli, Arabic: جيش التحرير) was a force fighting for the independence of Morocco. In 1956, units of the army began infiltrating Ifni and other Spanish Morocco and Spanish Sahara enclaves. Initially, they received significant support from the Moroccan government. In the Spanish Sahara, the army recovered Sahrawi tribes along the way, and triggered a large-scale rebellion. In early 1958, the King of Morocco has reorganized Liberation Army defense units in the Spanish Sahara as the "Saharan Liberation Army"  

The revolt in the Spanish Sahara was suppressed in 1958 by a joint French and Spanish offensive. The king of Morocco then signed an agreement with the Spanish, as stated by the control of border areas of southern rebels and the parties Liberation Army was absorbed back into the Moroccan armed forces. 

Moroccan nationalists tend to see the battles of the Liberation Army of Western Sahara as a test of loyalty to the crown of Moroccan Western Sahara while the Polisario Front supporters see as an anti-colonial war against Spain . Veterans of the Army of Saharawi liberation currently exists on both sides of the conflict in Western Sahara, and both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic celebrate it as part of its political history. 

slogan: MOTO

The motto of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, decorate each military base, flag, and the ship is God - Nation - King. 

God, Creator of all destination, we can infuse his mercy, He commands our choice in the right way. 

Nation: The earth that nourishes our generosity, we argue that we protect the integrity and defend it against all enemies. 

King: Our captain and guide, that guide our renaissance and development, protection of the rights of our people. "