TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Steven R.
ED  - Georgetown University.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces 
SN  - 9781626160651
AV  - DS273.3 .W37 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Iran
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - History
KW  - History, Military
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - "In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361) and index; Heritage of greatness, legacy of loss -- Powerful predecessors: the Safavids and Nader Shah -- Laughingstock: the Qajar military -- Nationalism unleashed: from revolution to the Great War -- Two paths: the birth of the modern Iranian armed forces -- Sidelined: the world at war in Iran -- Cold War pillar: the rise of the Imperial Armed Forces -- Old guard, new guard: Iran's armed forces in the Islamic Revolution -- Horrible sacrifice: the Iran-Iraq War -- Despise not your enemy: Iran's armed forces in the twenty-first century
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781626160651/
ER  -