Editing Kuwait Armed Forces (section)

=== Demolition of Kuwait City 3rd Defensive Wall, and formation of the Kuwait Armed Forces ===

The [[Kuwait Army]] split from the Directorate of Public Security Force in 1953; subsequently, the latter merged with Directorate of Police to form Directorate of Public Security and Police in 1959; following the demolition of the third defensive wall of Kuwait in 1957 through a ministerial decree for the expansion of Kuwait City; which later formed the [[Ministry of Interior (Kuwait)|Kuwait Ministry of Interior]] including the Kuwait Police. The Army was the first branch of what became the Armed Forces formed mainly of land force components. In the same year, the Army signed on the procurement of the [[Centurion tank]], and two [[de Havilland DH.104 Dove]] monoplanes entered into service in the newly formed Air Force.

In 1958 Kuwaiti officers were sent to the Military Academies in Egypt and Iraq to train, and the Kuwait Army underwent its first alert following the coup of [[Abdul Karim Qasim]]. In 1959 the Kuwait Army set up its first mechanized combat brigade, the Kuwait 6th Mechanized Brigade, known later as the [[Kuwait Army|Kuwait 6th Liberation Mechanized Brigade]], following the liberation of Kuwait during the [[Gulf War]].