The Iran-Iraq War /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Twentieth-century wars
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Table of Contents:
- I: The causes and context of the conflict
- Introduction
- Iran's revolution and Iraq's ambitions
- II: The early operations
- The Iraqi offensive of September 1980 and the failure of Saddam's 'limited war'
- Human waves: Iran's counter-offensives into Iraq
- Escalation: operations Wa al Fajr and Khaibar, 1984
- Foreign intervention, 1980-84
- III: The search for a decisive results
- Turning point: operations Badr and Fao, 1985-86
- War of the cities. home fronts, internal security and insurgency
- IV: Breaking the impasse
- The Tanker War, the arms trade and international interventions, 1985-87
- The failure of strategy: Iranian offensives and Iraqi counter-offensives, 1987-88
- Fuelling the flames: gulf operations, 1987-88
- V: Consequences and conclusions
- The Iran-Iraq war in retrospect.