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 ...

Despite doubts about the overall fighting capability of the Iraqi military, the Pentagon considers Iraq's Special Republican Guard a formidable ... plus soldiers in uniform 11 years ago, and ...

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 (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 ...

One military analyst, asked about the southern advance of Iraqi troops believed to be Republican Guard, called it a bold move -- one that could not have been attempted if American tank-killing A ...

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.

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 ...

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.