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Immortal [electronic resource] : a military history of Iran and its armed forces / Steven R. Ward.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 380 p. :) maps, plansISBN:
  • 9781626160651
  • 1626160651
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS273.3 .W37 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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"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.

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