- Additional Authors
- Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 380 p.) : maps, plans.
- Uniform Title
- Immortal (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Immortal (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- "In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2008031770
- OCLC
- ssj0000176863
- Author
Ward, Steven R.
- Title
Immortal [electronic resource] : a military history of Iran and its armed forces / Steven R. Ward.
- Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies.