Editing Republican Guard (Iraq) (section)

===Persian Gulf War===
{{further|Operation Desert Shield}}

Between the [[invasion of Kuwait]] and the [[Persian Gulf War]] ("[[Operation Desert Storm]]"), the number of Republican Guard formations was expanded and the Guard was reorganized. The Republican Guard Forces Command was also created during this period. At the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, it consisted of the following units:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA484530.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702225459/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ada484530 |url-status=live |archive-date=July 2, 2013 |title=Iraqi Perspectives Project Phase II Um Al-Ma'arik (The Mother of All Battles): Operational and Strategic Insights from an Iraqi Perspective |publisher=Institute for Defense Analyses |date=May 2008 |page=272}}</ref>
* Republican Guard, {{small|[[Commanding officer|CO]] Lieutenant General Iyad Futayyih Khalifah al-Rawi}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA484530.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702225459/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ada484530 |url-status=live |archive-date=July 2, 2013 |title=Iraqi Perspectives Project Phase II Um Al-Ma'arik (The Mother of All Battles): Operational and Strategic Insights from an Iraqi Perspective |publisher=Institute for Defense Analyses |date=May 2008 |page=405}}</ref>
** 1st Republican Guard Corps, deployed in southern Iraq and northern Kuwait, consisted of:
*** [[1st Hammurabi Armoured Division|1st ''Hammurabi'' Armoured Division]], <small>CO Major General Qais Abd al-Razaq.</small><ref>{{cite web |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA484530.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702225459/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ada484530 |url-status=live |archive-date=July 2, 2013 |title=Iraqi Perspectives Project Phase II Um Al-Ma'arik (The Mother of All Battles): Operational and Strategic Insights from an Iraqi Perspective |publisher=Institute for Defense Analyses |date=May 2008 |page=406}}</ref>
*** [[2nd Al Medina Armored Division|2nd ''al-Medinah al-Munawera'' Armoured Division]]
*** [[Tawakalna Division|3rd ''Tawakalna ala-Allah'' Mechanised Division]]
*** 4th ''[[Al-Faw peninsula|Al Faw]]'' Motorized Infantry Division
** 2nd Republican Guard Corps deployed south of Baghdad consisted of:
*** 5th ''Baghdad'' Mechanised Division, a square division of four brigades, was able to be split into two small half-divisions
*** 6th ''[[Nebuchadnezzar II|Nebuchadnezzar]]'' Motorized Infantry Division
*** 7th ''Adnan'' Motorized Infantry Division<ref group=a>Named after a cousin of Saddam Hussein</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5kJDyR3PuMC&pg=PA64 |title=Lucrative targets |work=[[USAF]] |date=2001|publisher=DIANE |isbn=9781428990418 }}</ref>

Deployed outside of the corps structure were various other units including:

:* 8th ''As Saiqa'' Special Forces Division - contained a [[marine (military)|marine]] brigade, a [[paratrooper|parachute brigade]], and a [[special forces]] brigade. The marine brigade was deployed on Kuwait's [[List of islands of Kuwait|nine islands]], all of which with the exception of [[Failaka Island]] are uninhabited. The brigade was headquartered on [[Bubiyan Island]]

The Republican Guard also included two Corps Headquarters, the ''Allah Akbar'' Republican Guard Operations Command, and the ''Fat'h al-Mubayyin'' Republican Guard Operations Command, separate artillery detachments and numerous field support units.

Between the invasion of Kuwait and the start of the war on 17 January 1991, four more RGFC internal security divisions had been formed which remained behind in Iraq. All of these units were motorised infantry. The names of only three of them were identified: the ''Al-Abed'', ''Al-Mustafa'' ('The Elect') and ''Al-Nida'' Divisions ('The Call'). They may have conducted operations against [[Peshmerga|Kurdish forces]] in the north.