Republican Guard

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• The Iraqi military currently keeps 400,000 men under arms, including almost 100,000 in the Republican Guard and the Special Republican Guard.

  Academic text (1999)

• Within ten days of the invasion, the disciplined and professional soldiers of the Iraqi Republican Guard had been withdrawn from Kuwait City, to be replaced by the conscript rabble of the Popular Army.

  Fiction book (1994)

• But during the ground war, key units like the Republican Guard still fought extraordinarily hard.

  Academic text (1999)

• Lightly armed opposition troops would stand little chance in open combat against these forces, especially the Republican Guard.

  Academic text (1999)

• Even battered Republican Guard divisions would be too much for the weak opposition forces to handle in urban combat.

  Academic text (1999)

• Manaf was known as a close friend of Bashar al-Assad and served as a brigade commander in the Republican Guard Division, an elite unit formed to protect the regime.

  Academic text (2013)

• True, American capabilities included automated means of reprogramming target strikes, but the battle plan actually focused on the battering of and direct attack on the Iraqi center of gravity, the Republican Guard divisions.

  Academic text (1999)

• U.S. officers say three-quarters of the allied airstrikes are now going after Republican Guard units ringing the capital.

• Much of that action was against Republican Guard forces on the southern edge of the city.

• In the Iraq War, for example, the coalition concentrated on destroying Saddam's Republican Guard and capturing Baghdad.

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