The Republican Guard, the country's best-trained and best-equipped military ... uniforms even before the U.S. sweep. But as the focus of the war shifts to the suspected stronghold of Iraqi ...

The Republican Guard (RG) is the elite force of the Iraqi military. Members of the RG are better trained, disciplined, equipped and paid than ordinary Iraqi soldiers. This said, in terms of equipment ...

How strong was the Iraqi military before ... to have taken off their uniforms and melted back into the population. In a surprise, major battles with the Republican Guard and Special Republican ...

During their onslaught against the Republican Guard in the southern approaches to Baghdad, U.S. military commanders had grim words to describe what they were doing to the elite Iraqi forces.

By the end of the war, the Republican Guard had been anointed as Iraq’s primary offensive weapon. Guard units are heavily equipped. According to globalsecurity.org, a military website ...

Sam Gardiner who discusses the psychological operations the U.S. military seems to have deployed. He mentions that U.S. forces got into the Iraqi military fax and e-mail system and delivered ...

the Pentagon has been reaching out to the Republican Guard through radio broadcasts and very specific leaflets they have been dropping in Iraq. A senior military official told ABCNEWS that the ...

on military maps. The US Army’s Eagle troop, consisting of M1 Abrams and Bradley Fighting vehicles engaged and destroyed a significant number of Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and Armoured vehicles.

The US military said that the air assaults conducted over the last 36 hours were chiefly directed at the Iraqi Republican Guard, including the Medina Division that is considered among the most ...

U.S. ground forces began engaging the elite Iraqi ... Republican Guard that ring the capital of Baghdad, launching helicopter attacks Sunday night against the Guard's Medina division, a senior ...