UID:
edocfu_9959237812502883
Format:
1 online resource (395 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58901-587-8
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1-58901-588-6
Content:
Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history.
Note:
"In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58901-258-5
Language:
English
