Iraqi leaders have promised that the Republican Guard will fight to the death. They are ready to sacrifice to the level of martyrdom to defend their leader, their country and their sanctities, the official Iraqi News Agency said March 1. The U.S.-led forces appear ready to accommodate them.
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And so here we are once more.). The point is that the Republican Guards are elite troops compared with the rest of the Iraqi army, but they wouldn't score well in a worldwide competition. Saddam Hussein created the Republican Guard in 1980, as a Praetorian guard to provide security for his regime. Initially, its ranks were filled entirely with natives of Tikrit, Saddam's hometown. However, the corps expanded into a spearhead force during the Iran-Iraq War.
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WASHINGTON  The road to victory for U.S.-led forces in Iraq runs through the Republican Guard. A dozen years after Saddam Hussein's best divisions failed to defeat U.S. tanks and infantry in the deserts west of Kuwait, the elite Iraqi units will get one more chance — this time to save the Iraqi leader's life.
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There is no reason to doubt this morning's report from U.S. Central Command that the 1 st Marine Division has  destroyed  the Republican Guard's Baghdad division on the southeastern outskirts of the capital.
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It came as a surprise—presumably no less to Iraqi commanders than to American commentators—when the U.S. Army's 3 rd Infantry Division and the 1 st Marine Division launched their final push toward Baghdad Tuesday night, aiming to punch through the Republican Guard's most built-up defenses.
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Between the invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War, the number of Republican Guard formations was expanded and the Guard was reorganized. The Republican Guard Forces Command was also created during this period.
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On 2 August 1990, the Republican Guard units commenced the invasion of Kuwait, which lasted two days. The Kuwait army strength was 16,000, so on paper Iraqi forces outnumbered the Kuwaitis 7 to 1.
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The U.S.-led force has two principal aims: Destroy or capture the Republican Guard and seize Baghdad and Saddam's birthplace and power base of Tikrit, which is about 100 miles to the north.
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It later became the Republican Guard Corps, and then the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC) with its expansion into two corps. The Republican Guard was disbanded in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq by a U.S. -led international coalition. The Republican Guard were the elite troops of the Iraqi army directly reporting to Saddam Hussein, unlike the paramilitary force Fedayeen Saddam, and the ordinary Iraqi Army.
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Dispatches from reporters traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division indicate that an Iraqi force of about 6,000 — some from the Republican Guard's Medina Division — were digging in around the holy city of Karbala, about 70 miles south of Baghdad. Fighting was expected to begin within a day or two.
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