GCC troops are more than 100,000.
The newly unveiled joint Arab defense force will be twice the size of NATO's Response Force at 40,000 men, according to an Arab League source.
"The majority of the units will be from Egypt, Morocco, with Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Jordan also providing troops while other countries will have smaller numbers included," the source said.
"The force would be made up of an air command, a naval command and a land operations command," the source told Defense News.
The source stated that 500 to 1,000 men will be members of the air command while 3,000 to 5,000 service members will be in the naval command and 34,000 to 35,000 will make up the land forces.
"The land forces will have three subcommands made up of a special operations command, a rapid reaction force and a rescue operations command," the source said
He added that the bulk of the units may be provided by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and possibly Sudan, while countries like Morocco, Jordan and the UAE would ideally provide the advanced special forces, precision-guided munitions or intelligence niche capabilities.
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