| Title: | Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces |
| Author: | Steven R. Ward, in cooperation with The Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
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| Language: | English |
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| Place: | Washington, DC |
| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Pages: | XIV, 380 |
| ISBN: | 1589012585, 9781589012585 |
| File: | PDF, 7.8 MB |
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Steven R. Ward. Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009, XIV+380 p. ISBN 1589012585, ISBN 9781589012585
Contents
List of Figures … ix
Preface and Acknowledgments … xi
Introduction: The Iranian Phoenix … 1
1. Heritage of Greatness, Legacy of Loss … 11
2. Powerful Predecessors: The Safavids and Nader Shah … 41
3. Laughingstock: The Qajar Military … 61
4. Nationalism Unleashed: From Revolution to the Great War … 91
5. Two Paths: The Birth of the Modern Iranian Armed Forces … 125
6. Sidelined: The World at War in Iran … 151
7. Cold War Pillar: The Rise of the Imperial Armed Forces … 181
8. Old Guard, New Guard: Iran’s Armed Forces in the Islamic Revolution … 211
9. Horrible Sacrifi ce: The Iran- Iraq War … 242
10. Despise Not Your Enemy: Iran’s Armed Forces in the Twenty- first Century … 299
Notes … 327
Bibliography … 349
Index … 363