Immortal : a military history of Iran and its armed forces /

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Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ward, Steven R.
Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Military > Pictorial.
Armed Forces
Iran > History, Military.
Iran > Armed Forces > History.
Iran
History
Military history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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