Immortal a military history of Iran and its armed forces /

Main Author: Ward, Steven R.
Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10313995
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300 |a xiii, 380 p. :  |b maps, plans. 
500 |a "In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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