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The first organized army in Jordan was established on 22 October 1920, and was named the "Mobile Force", at the time it was 150 man strong under the command of the British Captain Frederick Peake.On its third anniversary, in October 1923, the now-1,000-man force was renamed the Arab Legion.. In 1939, John Bagot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, became the …