Immortal : a military history of Iran and its armed forces / / Steven R. Ward.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 380 p. :; maps, plans. |
| Notes: | "In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University." |
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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.