GROUND FORCES TRAINING ACTIVITY WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT, LIBYA (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 28, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET GROUND FORCES TRAINING ACTIVITY
WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT, LIBYA
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GROUND FORCES TRAINING ACTIVITY
WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT, LIBYA (SWN)
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OBSERVED IN LIBYA'S WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT
SIGNIFICANCE: LARGE-SCALE GROUND FORCES TRAINING
EXERCISES, ONE POSSIBLY AT THE BRIGADE LEVEL,.WERE
THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THIS ACTIVITY IS
WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN LIBYA. (SWN)
REMARKS: LARGE-SCALE TRAINING EXERCISES INVOLVING 22
MAJOR MANEUVER BATTALIONS (BNS) WERE OBSERVED IN THREE
AREAS OF THE WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT. THE LARGEST OF
THE THREF EXERCISES WAS IN THE JADU MIZDAH TRAINING AREA
A, NEWLY IDENTIFIED AREA 75 NM SOUTHWEST
OF TARABULUS. THE PRIMARY UNITS PARTICIPATING IN THIS
EXERCISE INCLUDED SIX PROBABLE TANK BNS, TWO PROBABLE
MECHANIZED'(MECH) INFANTRY (INF) BNS, FIVE SELF-PROPELLED
ARTILLERY BNS, TWO MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER (MRL) BNS,
ONE FROG BN,AND ONE TOWED ARTILLERY BN. THE FIVE
REMAINING UNITS INVOLVED IN EXERCISES WERE TRAINING IN
.THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WESTERN MILITARY DISTRICT.
TWO MECH INF BNS, ONE TANK BN,AND ONE MRL BN WERE
DEPLOYED 66 NM SOUTHEAST OF TARABULUS AND 17.5 NM
NORTHWEST OF BANI WALID AT 31-59-OON 013-47-15E. ONE
TOWED ARTILLERY BN WAS DEPLOYED 120 NM SOUTHEAST OF
TARABULUS AND 52 NM EAST OF.BANI WALID AT 31-42-10N
015-01-OOE. (SWN)
ANALYST COMMENTS: THE UNITS IN THE JADU MIZDAH AREA MAY
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN BRIGADE LEVEL TRAINING. ALTHOUGH
NO DISTINGUISHABLE BRIGADE PARKING PATTERNS OR BRIGADE
MANUEVERS WERE OBSERVED, THE TYPES AND NUMBER OF UNITS
THAT WERE PRESENT IN THIS AREA SUGGEST THAT AT LEAST TWO
ARMOR BRIGADES AND ONE ARTILLERY BRIGADE MAY HAVE BEEN
PARTICIPATING. THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME LIBYAN UNITS
HAVE BEEN OBSERVED TRAINING WITHIN A BRIGADE STRUCTURE.
ALTHOUGH THE BATTALION IS THE BASIC MANEUVER ELEMENT OF
THE LIBYAN ARMY, REPORTEDLY THE LIBYANS HAVE FORMED
BRIGADES THAT ARE SUBORDINATE TO.A DIVISION, WITHIN
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OF NORTHWEST LIBYA.(SWN)
SELECTED MILITARY DISTRICTS. A REVIEW OF IMAGERY PRIOR
TO THIS DATE REVEALED THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE UNITS
INVOLVED IN THESE EXERCISES WERE PROBABLY FROM GARRISONS
IN THE TARABULUS, AZ ZAWIYAH, TARHUNAH,,AND GHARYAN AREAS
BE NONE, COORDINATES NONE (U)
COLLATERAL REFERENCE: DIA, GROUND ORDER OF BATTLE:
NORTH AFRICA STATES, DDB-1100-318-82, NOVEMBER 1982. (S)
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