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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...