Immortal [electronic resource] : a military history of Iran and its armed forces / Steven R. Ward.
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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 380 p. : maps, plansSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification: - DS273.3 .W37 2009eb
"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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