The Coalition Underestimated Iraq's Hardest Fighting Unit | Iraq 2003

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When the US-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003, General Tommy Franks believed the main threats to be the Iraqi Army and Republican Guard units. What he underestimated was the strength of the Fedayeen Saddam, a militia controlled by Saddam Hussein's son Uday. These were hard fighters who continued to fight to the end, and reaked havoc upon the long coalition supply lines from Kuwait to the tip of the spear of the march on Baghdad.
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Sources:
Gordon, Michael, and Bernard E. Trainor. Cobra 2.: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. London, UK: Atlantic Books, 2007.
MacAskill, Ewen. “Murders and Mutilation in Iraq Revealed.” The Guardian, November 3, 2000. www.theguardian.com/world/200....
McConnell, Malcolm, and Tommy Franks. American Soldier. Regan Books, 2004.
Rose, David. “Death Squads the CIA Ignored.” The Guardian, March 30, 2003. www.theguardian.com/world/200....
Woods, Kevin M. Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership. Norfolk, VA: United States Joint Forces Command, Joint Center for Operational Analysis, 2006.

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@ryanelliott71698 14 дней назад

Ok the darth Vader part caught me off guard

@Menaceblue3 14 дней назад

Darth Feda.... ....yeen!

@ryanelliott71698 14 дней назад

@@Menaceblue3 lol that was good. Tbh I thought they looked like that to provide better head protection, not to larp

@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 14 дней назад

Saddam was a fan as well, and actually wrote his own sci fi-love novels 😂

@Chris-fn4df 14 дней назад

Those helmets are a touch of military genius - nobody can possibly take you seriously while wearing one. I wonder how many troops missed a shot just because they were trying to stifle a chuckle.

@carlbernard2605 12 дней назад

In the dungeons of the Republican palace in baghdad we found a good amount of those wacky Darth Vader helmets we were like wtf guy must have loved star wars lol

@1977Yakko 14 дней назад

So, did Gen. Franks essentially fall into the age old trap of being ready to fight the last war?

@tyvernoverlord5363 14 дней назад

Too ready and being unwilling to respect the reality of the situation at the ground and grunt level due to him being an officer for too long and having a superior view of himself. Too many officers in OIF and OEF had that way of thinking; and it only got WORSE overtime. The Obama period really got bad. Not saying he was a bad president; but for prosecuting Iraq and Afghanistan he wasn't what was needed.

@MarcosElMalo2 14 дней назад

No.

@tokyosmash 14 дней назад

Franks was a legendary megalomaniac

@greygalah 14 дней назад

Well said. This is the great military disease of inflexible thinking. The British generals fought WW1 as if it were the Crimean War; the Navy fought WW2 as if it were WW1 (aircraft carriers with biplanes!); The US fought Vietnam as if it were Korea; and the hits just keep on coming

@tokyosmash 14 дней назад

@@greygalah that’s the ol’ saying of preparing for the last war

@Quackerilla 14 дней назад

Darth Vader Division

@mustavogaia2655 14 дней назад

501st

@optimusender9774 14 дней назад

Vader's fist

@inSainTed 14 дней назад

I find your lack of faith disturbing

@SavageDragon999 14 дней назад

Fucking hypocrite lmao. Publicly acts like he hates the US but is deep down a star wars masturbator.

@nabilbudiman271 14 дней назад

the "DVD", nice

@amogusenjoyer 14 дней назад

Funny that the decentralized approach they took to weapon caches/leadership was done to make fighting an insurgency easier but ended up make their own insurgency much more effective. I guess they were right about how an eventual iraqi insurgency against saddam would've turned out haha.

@Huy-G-Le 7 дней назад

Iraqi Insurgency against Saddam are all US backed extremist.

@SusCalvin 6 дней назад

The traditional enemy Iraq had been fighting was Iran and different internal uprisings.

@Huy-G-Le 6 дней назад

@@SusCalvin Iran related made up 2 out 10 of "traditional enemy" of the Iraqi state under Hussein, but ok.

@amogusenjoyer 6 дней назад

@@SusCalvin I don't think there has been a lot is insurgency in Iraq prior to the early 90s, right?

@SusCalvin 6 дней назад

@@amogusenjoyer I don't recall exactly when Saddam was putting down different uprisings. But that is a pretty common concern in dictatorships.

@iraqigeek8363 14 дней назад

How broken was US intelligence that it missed the role of the fidayeen?!!! Anybody who lived in iraq throgugh the 90s was very familiar with their brutality and loyalty to the regime. To dismiss them as a risk - as others pointed out - strikes of sheer incompetence

@amogusenjoyer 14 дней назад

Well usually militias like them (that are basically based on loyalty to a regime) are pretty useless when said regime is collapsing. They mostly only exist as long as they have some sort of "monopoly" on violence on the internal population and completely trash at fighting anyone else. But in this case yeah, loyalty to baathism took a different form after the initial collapse

@bloodybones63 14 дней назад

They lost, they were destroyed, so, there's that.

@tinyprince 14 дней назад

@@bloodybones63 That genuinely doesn't matter. Priority #1 should be to make sure you acknowledge any and all mistakes made and learn from them, regardless of the success of the operation. Underestimating guerilla fighters backed by their own government is a mistake. That's the simple truth.

@MrNicoJac 14 дней назад

Although I share your outrage/frustration, it's not _that_ hard to empathize, either. Like, just _actually_ sit and think for a minute: What assumptions/beliefs would it take for you to have viewed them as "merely a speed bump"? I also think the American leadership made grave errors here, but I can _still_ imagine a set of ideas that makes their stupidity appear logical :)

@KaDaJxClonE 14 дней назад

The US missed 9/11 because the Intel world couldn't communicate with each other. This was remedied with the creation of NSA and DHS. (TSA has always been theatre and never meant to be effective). Missing one militia group of the hundreds of territorial Defense forces and Republican guard units and tracking the movement of the normal army is hard work.

@Archangelm127 14 дней назад

Ah yes, the timeless and powerful command/management technique of sticking one's fingers in one's ears and yelling "LA LA LA." Well done, Franks.

@nowthenzen 14 дней назад

Apparently Franks and his staff had never played a war game going against troops rated as Fearless Militia.

@poweroftorque 9 дней назад

Never underestimate power of volunteers …

@arwing20 14 дней назад

The sheer incompetence and arrogance of American high command during and after this war just made things much worse for the troops and civilians on the ground

@bloodybones63 14 дней назад

I think it's called confidence, mate.

@MM22966 14 дней назад

There wasn't much incompetence. They just vastly underestimated how idiotic the Iraqis were.

@blamthekaboom 14 дней назад

high command? i guess america is the new nazi germany

@CubeInspector 14 дней назад

When you don't realize Iraq was always meant to be a forever war like Afghanistan you call it incompetence instead of what it was, sabotage.

@umbrellashotgunman 14 дней назад

It says something about the sheer tactical level disparity between the Coalition and the Iraqis that the strategic and operational level mistakes made by the former didn’t do much to save the latter.

@rinoz47 14 дней назад

"Then Uday flew into a rage."

@homoflexual886 14 дней назад

I think the funny thing is he was probably still in a rage up until a TOW missile flew into his house

@JohnnyRico118 12 дней назад

"This enraged Uday, who punished his subordinates severely."

@Josh23761 12 дней назад

From my understanding he was prone to his temper tantrums. Problem is these tantrums usually resulted in him using a gun. If he wasn't his Son, Saddam would probably have killed him for being a huge pain in the ass for him. Hard to keep the 'father of the people and heroic commander' image when your Son is torturing and killing people over tiny issues or when he feels he is not shown respect.

@witzeto150 11 дней назад

@@Josh23761 Saddam almost did kill Uday, because he killed his best friend. Only thing that stopped him was Uday’s mother begging him not to.

@Kaanfight 11 дней назад

@@Josh23761he was a crazy person, yes

@notorio526 14 дней назад

I can't believe RU-vid recommended me something good

@avgjoeavglife 14 дней назад

Once in a while, RU-vid recommends good content.

@curlymcdom 13 дней назад

This whole channel is superb, enjoy the binge!

@ShadowOfTheHawke 13 дней назад

The algorithm must be under maintenance.

@diskopartizan0850 12 дней назад

There's a partner channel called the operations room too. Great stuff.

@MrHaveaword 11 дней назад

Yeah same here, RU-vid’s starting to affect my mental health

@Jivemike8404 11 дней назад

OIF Veteran here 2007-2008 US Navy Corpsman I really appreciate the vids on OIF! Its been so long but watching these I remember the taste of the god damn dust in the air. It is so wild how a memory can snap you back 17 years in time. I had to pull out a calculator to see if that number was true. It was. Ouch. Love for my brothers and sisters. Keep up the great work!

@caseyo6033 14 дней назад

There is a lot that Rumsfeld did not understand but thought he did. Let military leaders lead the military not politicians

@C.Chandler_May 14 дней назад

Well, it was based on a lie to begin with.

@noco7243 14 дней назад

Cope@@C.Chandler_May

@nolanwhite1971 14 дней назад

Military leaders at that level *are* politicians, though.

@raysteigerwalt5272 14 дней назад

@@C.Chandler_Maynothing was found wink wink

@C.Chandler_May 14 дней назад

@@raysteigerwalt5272 tube's.. yellow cake..

@michaele5173 14 дней назад

I was in 1/325 AIR during the Battle of As Amawah. When we first got close enough to see the enemy (sprinting across the desert in full chemical suits because we were taking mortar fire) I saw these Darth Vader helmets and was like WTF because I'd been there in '91 and knew what the Republican Guard looked like. We had been briefed nothing at all on the Fedayeen, I thought it might have been Iran Quds forces. We slaughtered them but they did fight to the death. The reason they fought to the death is because they were high on meth. We were finding so much on the bodies that word came down to keep an eye on the troops to make sure they weren't taking any haha. I don't know if that was ever reported to the media.

@westrim 14 дней назад

So you're saying there was a methhead to their madness.

@bigbison6593 14 дней назад

That must have looked hilarious! Just Darth Vader running into assault rifles like he has. got the force then just dies!

@MM22966 14 дней назад

I heard they used the main hospital as a primary firing point (since it was the biggest building in town and the surrounding area was fairly flat). Also that they used the ambulances as tactical transports around the city.

@DogKacique 14 дней назад

@@westrim Ayyyyyyyyy

@blksubiesti 14 дней назад

I was at the 64 easting our skirmish too bro. We had no idea what that uniform was. Didn’t matter the didn’t stand a chance

@bananabanana8831 14 дней назад

lot of "underestimating" went on back then .

@tyvernoverlord5363 14 дней назад

A lot of British style Hubris went on in the Coalition, especially my own US of A.

@jarredpickle4916 14 дней назад

@@tyvernoverlord5363 Nah just Incompetent American officers

@tyvernoverlord5363 14 дней назад

@@jarredpickle4916 The incompetence was just the very TIP of the gigantic iceberg... Saying all of our problems was merely JUST incompetence, is incompetent thinking in and of itself.

@DogKacique 14 дней назад

Which it's crazy to think about, given how careful coalition forces were during Desert Storm

@AmonAnon-vw3hr 12 дней назад

@tyvernoverlord5363 quite the opposite. Too many kid glove tactics and cuddle bombs.

@yellowprime8491 11 дней назад

The US not supporting the Shia Uprising should have been a big hint to the Kurds what would come many years later 😞

@user-bf7xu3pz5h 8 дней назад

Amazing insight, fascinating description, comprehensive understanding- you Intel Report guys are the greatest!! Prester Bob

@crosbykid97 14 дней назад

they out here rocking earth vader helmets

@sophiavhoti4548 12 дней назад

i hate when a movie copies something than becomes so famous it overshadows the original thing. Star was litterally used one of these helmets for vader it wasnt an original design they just used mil-surplus.

@Nedula007 9 дней назад

@sophiavhoti4548 LOL what. That's a blatant lie. Brian Muir sculpted Vaders mask and armor from inspiration of Samauri. Don't spread falsehoods.

@shaider1982 14 дней назад

It's a good thing commercial fpv drones weren't a thing then.

@oneshotme 6 дней назад

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@g.b.8836 14 дней назад

Franks was something else....

@5metoo 14 дней назад

He couldn't retire fast enough after Baghdad fell.

@nolan1481 14 дней назад

Fine, I'll watch Generation Kill again

@208flatheads3 12 дней назад

Is that who was in that white small pickup in that first or 2nd episode?

@AmonAnon-vw3hr 12 дней назад

Lol you may as well go watch Aladdin.

@armannstraughter3296 11 дней назад

@@AmonAnon-vw3hr😆?

@lexussinkhole1202 10 дней назад

A series about people travelling through the desert in HumVees barely seeing any action with soldiers jacking it in the background in random scenes. What a great show...

@Patop2002 9 дней назад

@@lexussinkhole1202 Thats literally the most accurate depiction of the Iraq war possible.

@s4usea 14 дней назад

My little brother was in an infantry unit at As Samawah with the 82nd, (they called it A$$ $andwich). Frank's problem was as an Artillery officer he had no understanding of the application of infantry and armor below the operational level. To his credit, he generally understood this and gave his commanders, to include the SF guys, a free hand unless civilians were involved, (to limit casualties) which caused problems when the Fedayeen were involved and tactical realities collided with command intent. Lastly, recognizing the Fedayeen as a force to be reckoned with came from Rumsfeld, not Franks, as SecDef didn't want any comparisons to VN. To that end, he forbad the use of "insurgency" and it took him more than two and a half years to even acknowledge what was going on in Iraq. In this context Franks reaction to it was probably due to knowing that Rumsfeld was going to visit consequences on him for his commander not sticking to the script.

@13thravenpurple94 13 дней назад

Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

@sg51psd04 14 дней назад

Thank you for covering this small yet most important battle during the invasion. We fought 50/50 Republican guard and Sadaam Fedayeen, In As Samawah Iraq in end of Mar. 2003. From 27-30 Mar it was mostly republican guard, then Fedayeen AFTER. Those FADAYEEN dudes were fanatical and threw their lives away constantly in charges against us...I was Aco, 2BDE 1st BN 82nd ABN. we fought in As Samawah from 29 Mar- 8 April 2003. then it was passive mop up after. 3rd ID called us up when they failed to take As Samawah. We (paratroopers took it in a week) minus 3rd IDs Armor...Something about them as LEGS couldn't protect their supply lines and needed us to fix that issue..., Side note, my Plt took 12 republican guard prisoners in a 8hr battle on 31 Mar. 2003. We gleaned much intel on the Fedayeen from them. Enlightening us on the disposition of the rest of the defense of As Samawah.

@ifv2089 11 дней назад

Legend 🫡

@luckydawg03 11 дней назад

2nd platoon. What about you?

@samy7013 3 дня назад

“Samawah”? Do you mean _Samarra_ ?

@Mustafa-nu9tj 11 дней назад

Proud to be Iraqi 🇮🇶

@Miks-ck1kv 11 дней назад

الله اكبر

@therealjoebiden5135 6 дней назад

@@Miks-ck1kvAllah is the greatest and just LOVES children. His 9 year old wife would attest to this.

@Miks-ck1kv 6 дней назад

@@therealjoebiden5135 seethe kaffir

@Miks-ck1kv 6 дней назад

@@therealjoebiden5135 seethe kaffir

@BULL.173 5 дней назад

I endorse this comment lol

@darkninjacorporation 14 дней назад

It’s like having to fight a cartel after being taught and prepared to fight an army. Completely different ballgames.

@SusCalvin 8 дней назад

The unit is part of a state armed force. The recruitment and resources of a state militia is hard to compare with non-state actors.

@AJK17.5 7 дней назад

Fighting a cartel would he easy for any proper standing army @@SusCalvin

@SusCalvin 7 дней назад

@@AJK17.5 The army does not investigate crime scenes, canvas neighbours, watch crowds, file evidence, audit records and track social networks as a main job. There are some countries with gendarmerie, internal troops and civilian use of military police. In them it leads to a double organization at best. The police and the second police. If they are heavily set towards this role they start to focus less on their military role.

@AJK17.5 6 дней назад

@@SusCalvin true but the military has many branches, and also all an army would have to do is pinpoint the location of the cartels and start raids on locations , if the usa for example set their armed forces they woukd disable most of Mexico or brazils hardest cartels

@SusCalvin 6 дней назад

@@AJK17.5 I think that would mean keeping the armed forces tracked away from a body meant to fight another nation-state, and even more of the armed forces reorganized to operate in Iraq. France has ran their Operation Sentinel for years now, it is the closest example to me of using regular troops for police and security tasks. French troops move in small patrols around the subway and sit around the Louvre and places. They do no investigation, they don't chat people up.

@MrShadowtruth 14 дней назад

And the thing is many Fedayeen fighters fought against the US-her allies and the new Iraqi republic until this very day, with many joining or even helping the founding Daesh.

@tyvernoverlord5363 14 дней назад

Its funny how were are STILL dealing with the global consequences of 2002-2003 to this day.

@Funko777 14 дней назад

@@tyvernoverlord5363 yeah... almost like all past historical events impact all future ones 🙄 You think 03 is bad, wait until you learn about the consequences of WW1 that we're still dealing with

@stardekk1461 14 дней назад

@@tyvernoverlord5363it's not that funny... It's a disaster

@tyvernoverlord5363 14 дней назад

@@stardekk1461Not funny as in hahaha, funny is in the irony that everyone thought it was over in 2011, when in fact still in current year 4:48 PM EST we still are dealing with the consequences and the government still can't put 2+2 together.

@aurele2 14 дней назад

@@stardekk1461 it is funny, many neocons in washington were extremerly confident with their flawed foreign policy which ultimately costed the lives of many innocents. Maybe dont do illegal wars- oh and if USA can get away with an illegall war, Putin will think to himself he can get away with Ukraine- see how US foreign policy backfired?

@LAHFaust 14 дней назад

I had a 1SGT who had one of the Fedayeen helmets with a hole punched through the side of it. He put that thing on the shelf behind his desk and it was right at eye-level when he was smoking you in his office.

@lilsmoke5999 10 дней назад

Based

@gtaddict3666 7 дней назад

In 2003, my father was a colonel in the Iraqi army, and he told us that the Fedayeen had beheaded prisoners of the coalition forces.

@spacemarine3482 7 дней назад

Based

@mussyeg 6 дней назад

Good ahaha 🤣

@stardekk1461 14 дней назад

Franks is the stereotype of the average American general

@AlexRojas-db6yd 11 дней назад

And he has the book title to prove it lmao

@davidtuttle508 14 дней назад

In 2003, I was in Diwaniyah, as an Army Civil Affairs soldier, supporting the 3d Bn, 5th Marines. We were briefed prior to the Marines taking Diwaniyah, that US Special Forces snuck into the city and observed the Fedayeen occupying its' soccer stadium. The Special Forces called in a massive airstrike. They stated that when it was over, all they saw was a red dusty mist. They estimated that 500+ Fedayeen had been vaporized.

@SavageHenry777 14 дней назад

Gorgeous

@mackenzieblair8135 14 дней назад

Delta? Or another group?

@CubeInspector 14 дней назад

@@mackenzieblair8135 when someone in the US Army says Special Forces we are talking about Green Berets, who have the Special Forces tab. This is in contrast to special operations, which is a generic term for special units

@helilivesmatter1075 14 дней назад

how long was it until you were issued desert pattern gear?

@mackenzieblair8135 14 дней назад

@@CubeInspector I’m well aware of the difference between SF and others. I asked because 1. it was a Marine operation and misread the OP also being a Marine and 2. Infiltrating an enemy occupied town seems like a skillset for a more direct action oriented unit.

@robbabcock_ 14 дней назад

Great video!

@markbowles2382 4 дня назад

If you study wars, you know, in all times, light armed fast moving troops are always underestimated against heavily armed troops, espeacially when its their own back yard and before air power.

@cabooseplays1466 14 дней назад

Darth vader helmets!?

@stardekk1461 14 дней назад

It fits their evilness

@RCAvhstape 14 дней назад

@@stardekk1461 And their cartoonishness.

@abo3abid1 7 дней назад

8:10 How to excuse yourself for slaughtering kids and destroying civil infrastructure? Just say that some random told us that was the secret. "Where is he?"... "Oh sorry he died too"

@RangerGucci 14 дней назад

Good content

@justinhadley2583 14 дней назад

The vader helmets were fitting.

@thomasebele8550 14 дней назад

The Darth Vader helmets for the Fedayeen are ... interesting.

@1joshjosh1 14 дней назад

I'm halfway through the video and I'm dying to know about the storm trooper helmets

@timfify 12 дней назад

Wow! this so revlent today.

@maxhill9254 6 дней назад

interesting, thx

@thebashar 14 дней назад

Great work. Will you cover objective Curly? My cousin was there.

@khornedmaple 13 дней назад

1:03 "by Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday" Oh no... oh god, no... 4:54 "as a notorious playboy" Yeah, that's one way to describe him 💀

@Josh23761 12 дней назад

Yeah big man using Daddys power to scare women into spreading their legs for a few minutes to avoid torture then throwing a tantrum and killing people over loosing a sports game. Real fucking Alpha energy right there 😂 Even Saddam thought he was useless and deranged but he could not afford to acknowledge that his successor was just a psychotic megalomaniac. They were two different types of evil, one had purpose and intelligence the other was sadistic selfish hedonism. By today Saddam may have died of age and Ba'athists would likely have gotten rid of Uday and Qussay. Although Qussay was capable of running things, the Ba'athists were very tribal focused. The fate of brothers was tied and any discrace to the Al Mujid dynasty was taken out on the siblings, spouse and children. A way of cleansing the wider family of disgrace. The tribe was always gonna end up as just another inbred dynasty just without using the titles of royal and monarchy.

@emilioglz.carrillodealborn9175 14 дней назад

Hello! Are you going to do any more videos on the indo-Pakistani wars? Thank you!

@yousafkhattak5259 12 дней назад

Specifically the Kargil war. Bcz that was tough and most recent

@196cupcake 14 дней назад

The part about how the Fedayeen became accustom to making a living off theft and extortion is the most brilliant and evil part. With the breakdown of rule of law they automatically become a problem for any invading force. I’d imagine that for a lot of them it was sort of all they knew how to do; their only employable skill. I’m not sure how easily they hid their identities, but to the extent that people knew who they were, … would you hire one to work at your Wendy’s? So, you have a decent number of men who are trapped in that sort of lifestyle.

@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx 11 дней назад

Flase. Fedayeen Worked As Law Enforcers. Why Would They Break Their Own Laws? Saddam Used Them To Enfore Islamic Laws In Order To Win The Support Of The Arab Muslim Iraqis...

@alpinegoat2054 14 дней назад

thank you

@RichardGeiszler 11 дней назад

This explains so much of the miniseries "Generation Kill."

@StevenKeery 14 дней назад

Interesting. Sounds familiar that Franks didn't or wouldn't listen to Commanders on the ground, as to what they were encountering.

@SaanMigwell 10 дней назад

That's not true. Franks let us do what we wanted/needed to do. Rumsfeld, Bremmer, and wolfowitz are the folks who didn't listen to the commanders on the ground, besides Franks was on the ground with us the whole way anyways. He knew what was going on.

@beachboy0505 9 дней назад

The insurgency actually fought the coalition to a standstill.

@outis7080 14 дней назад

4:54 "as a notorious playboy" And infamous serial rapist and murderer. Don't forget about that part.

@MrNicoJac 14 дней назад

Thanks for that clarification 😲🥲

@sedrfghbn 13 дней назад

I've meet countless sunni Arabs that said the Ba'ath regime days were stable and much better than post-invasion Iraq. It is scary how they consider mass-rape, extrajudicial killings, and torture as "stable" and "better." Keep in mind, ISIS was composed by a large part of ex-Ba'ath cadre and henchmen

@MrNicoJac 13 дней назад

@@sedrfghbn Sounds sorta like the same dynamic that Putin rides on. "Yeah, he makes us die in a pointless ego war, but at least it wasn't as bad as right after the Soviet Union collapsed" I wouldn't say it's "scary" how they consider these options better (both in Iraq and Russia), unless you mean it in a way like "omg, if this is better, than 'that' must have been _even_ worse!" Aka more of a humbling/educational moment, not judgmental

@aurele2 13 дней назад

@@sedrfghbn Iraq was better then than it is now, that is a fact, have a good day.

@Mirul-ef3jb 13 дней назад

@@sedrfghbn have you ever consider that those allegations could be false. Were talking about literal muslism here afterall

@3rdGearHeroR1 8 дней назад

When "Imperial Guards" doesn't quite send the message...

@shaider1982 14 дней назад

7:18 ok, so there is a connection: Uday was a Star Wars fan boy.🤣

@MrIraqibeast 10 дней назад

You forgot to mention their most famous battle at the Baghdad airport

@imanuelc143 5 дней назад

I do like sand. It's smooth and nice and pleasing and it gets everywhere.

@jeffersonmanchild9271 11 дней назад

Darth Vader troopers! I remember back during the invasion there were a few dead wearing these helmets. Sorta was funny but also wigged out.

@ShahjahanMasood 7 дней назад

what is the ost that plays in all these videos? I have been searching for years

@maverickloggins5470 14 дней назад

Goofy ass helmets lol

@aymenyahyaoui1771 14 дней назад

Shame You don't appreciate art

@maverickloggins5470 14 дней назад

@@aymenyahyaoui1771 what

@rickv9180 14 дней назад

Weird ass helmets for a fighting force

@spartanx9293 14 дней назад

Uday was a star wars fan

@cap.meruwkateklimana8321 14 дней назад

He watched too much Star Wars original trilogy movies especially Darth Vader.

@TheWizardGamez 14 дней назад

It’s meant to strike fear. And overwhelming sense of dread in the enemy

@RCAvhstape 14 дней назад

@@TheWizardGamez Make the enemy laugh himself to death?

@Michael-sl9vi 14 дней назад

I thought he maybe copied Spaceballs too

@orterves 14 дней назад

11:14 compete lack of respect for the leaders on the ground and for the threat of the enemy

@AmpND 11 дней назад

Thank you.

@davieWavy 9 дней назад

Would have been better as a Hardest Helmets video 😂

@nathanapplegate5374 11 дней назад

Those guys at 2:49 look like they found the people’s lack of faith disturbing

@1joshjosh1 14 дней назад

Lean and mean and sometimes green fedaheen.

@avemariax8181 13 дней назад

who would have thought the hardest Iraqi fighters were Darth Vaders

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 14 дней назад

Here when 7,3k in 2h. This will be good

@user-wt2vb3dx9s 14 дней назад

What a lucky coincidence.... A captain saying you need to commit War crimes to Win😂 WTF kind of defence is that

@StevenKeery 14 дней назад

User-wt: Hamas employing the same tactics, how strange.

@user-wt2vb3dx9s 14 дней назад

@@StevenKeery keep sugar coating your Crimes all you want.sooner or later you will run away all the same your puppets won't last milking for your Corporations

@kartoffelschloss6425 14 дней назад

If a religious sight is being used for military operations it is no longer a war crime to destroy it.

@LinkLegend0 11 дней назад

@kartoffelschloss6425 and then you create 10,000 more enemies.

@lucianograff6512 14 дней назад

surreal

@luxeternity 14 дней назад

The fedaykeen?

@ROM_ror2 6 дней назад

Fun fact about the helmets, their made of fiberglass, super light apparently

@oz314 9 дней назад

Based Iraqi militia

@redline1916 6 дней назад

Imagine getting fucked up by a bunch of guys in darth vader helmets

@poil8351 12 дней назад

They look more like gundam zeon helmets than star wars.

@BigBobster86 11 дней назад

9:38 bit of an interesting frame for Saddam's portrait.

@bassett_green 14 дней назад

Something that isn't mentioned here but was definitely true on the ground is the pervasive use of drugs (especially meth) in the group as a way to increase combat effectiveness

@MrNicoJac 14 дней назад

Does that actually increase combat effectiveness, or just make your cannon fodder more fanatical? 🤔😅

@ifv2089 11 дней назад

Not in the uk military it wasn't... lmfao

@ohnoes3084 11 дней назад

@@MrNicoJac it helps with giving you energy and also allowing you to still function after being shot fatally, also it makes your cannon fodder a lot less likely to care if they die

@SaanMigwell 10 дней назад

@@MrNicoJac How do you think France was taken in less than a month in WW2? Look up Pervitin. Meth/Dex/Benzies increase effectiviness for about three days, then you have to rotate that unit out and get it to sleep, if you don't they begin to deteriorate rapidly even with more drugs. We had the pills, but they never left Company Command, at least in my company. Others got their orders to munch their "combat pills" Three days you have super soldiers, after that they need to sleep or they start hallucinating and become paranoid. Not a good combo for 100+ men with heavy firepower at their disposal.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD 9 дней назад

@@MrNicoJac There's a reason performance enhancing drugs are banned in sports. Tweaking surely can make you more fanatical, but purely being on speed will increase your performance. When sweatshop labor became a talking point in the West, it was reported workers on Asia were doing speed to get through multiple shifts.

@TXnine7nine 8 дней назад

Those helmets looked more "Lord Dark Helmet" than "Darth Vader" on some of those guys 🤣

@furiousgeorge4114 7 дней назад

Space Ball 1 Division

@Shoelaces77 14 дней назад

Dont mess with the guys with Darth Vader helmets

@jonpato 12 дней назад

Soo Has Lucasart sued them yet?

@jason200912 9 дней назад

Was Sadam a star wars fan

@matthewkuchinski1769 13 дней назад

"Know your enemy as well as you know yourself and you shall not be afraid even if you fight a hundred battles." --Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Just from seeing Franks' disregard of intelligence about the Fedayeen militia one can see he broke one of the most essential rules of warfare laid down by the great master that he and others had supposedly read.

@MrSpirit99 8 дней назад

The photos need more jpeg.

@TeSolycMandalor 14 дней назад

"Col. Dan Allen, the commander of the US 3rd Brigade combat team..." Which one??? Nearly ever division in the Army has a 3rd Brigade. But in the photo of Colonel Dan Allen he wears the 173rd Brigade patch which is a highly specialized airborne unit.

@SaanMigwell 10 дней назад

Yeah that's vicenza, the unit was under 1AD 3rd brigade aviation command nominally at the time.

@TeSolycMandalor 10 дней назад

@@SaanMigwell yeah, but that's not the issue. He's not specific. He just says "...the US 3rd Brigade Combat team." I was in 4th ID out of Ft. Carson and I was in that divisions 3rd Brigade Combat team. I didn't wear that patch. It seems he forgot the 1 hundred 70th part because I know that airborne unit goes by name, 173rd brigade combar team.

@SaanMigwell 10 дней назад

@@TeSolycMandalor Yeah I know, I was just pointing out who vicenza belonged to at that time. I mean it was 21 years ago now, perhaps I've mixed it up, but I wasn't like arguing with you or anything. I was in 2bct 1AD 40th engineers.

@Trewazo 4 дня назад

General Franks is the type of dude to say "American citizens wouldn't have a chance against the government" if a civil confrontation occurred. He has the typical "only those in the military can know military things" egotistical officer way of thinking. We literally have a whole SF group dedicated to training locals to combat criminal, insurgent and military threats and these people still think civilians can't be turned into good fighters.

@tonysuthechineseguy 9 дней назад

Not to be confused with the feydakin

@gusfring8451 13 дней назад

Some say the Fedayeen fought as hard as the Fedaykin.

@SusCalvin 8 дней назад

A lot of dictatorships have this sort of units. Parallell security units of varied military effectiveness with tasks like coup defence, riot and uprising suppression and other security tasks. Hidden piles of stuff and standing orders to fall back on independent partisan warfare was part of Cold War Europe where Pact troops could initially take NATO territory.

@baghdade 11 дней назад

i dont know from were u got ur info, so much mistake's

@chrismair8161 9 дней назад

Grainy Videos from the 1990 VHS Camcorder does nothing for myself. Try the next binge watching as I was there Shop.

@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 14 дней назад

Reminds me of that great Bill Hicks bit about the elite republican guard 😂

@powasjington4262 8 дней назад

These were just guys who wanted to go hard for Saddam Hussein.

@Pooslingingmonkey 4 дня назад

2:57 Luke, I am your father. 😅

@Afton_Robotics_1987 4 дня назад

You know you're fucked when an army of Darth Vaders show up

@ratbatnufftime2861 7 дней назад

It's the Darth Vader helmets for me.......

@MrJakobMovies 12 дней назад

Nutz

@bigsarge2085 14 дней назад

✌✌

@SanitysVoid 8 дней назад

I got one of their Darth Vader style helmets.

@godoforder1828 12 дней назад

Immediately makes me recall Dune's Fedaykin. What does the name mean?

@diskopartizan0850 12 дней назад

'Those who sacrifice themselves (for God)' Herbert borrowed the word and added a K.

@FlowKio 8 дней назад

I mean I remember them being utterly destroyed but okay

@samlevites9824 10 дней назад

The pictures you post in your video as you’re narrating are totally wrong. Some of the pictures you had are of pro-western Kurdish Peshmerga fighters as you are describing them as Fidayeen.

@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx 11 дней назад

12:34 100? Says Who?