Immortal: A Military History Of Iran And Its Armed Forces
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Steven R. Ward
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Washington, D. C
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: Georgetown University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 380 p.
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: maps, plans
GENERAL NOTES
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Code E.Book: 3067
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"In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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