Arabization of the Jordanian Army command
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Arabization of the Jordanian Army command
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The Arabization of the Jordanian Army command saw the dismissal of senior British officers commanding the Arab Legion by King Hussein and the subsequent renaming of the Legion into the Jordanian Armed Forces on 1 March 1956. Glubb Pasha, the Arab Legion's British commander, was replaced with Major General Radi Annab, who became the first Arab commander of the Arab Legion. Hussein's intentions to Arabize the Army command were to replace British officers with Jordanian officers, assert political i
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1956 dismissal of senior British commanders of the Jordanian Arab Legion
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