Research Catalog

Title

Iran-Iraq naval war. Volume 1, Opening blows September-November 1980 / Tom Cooper, Sirous Ebrahimi and E.R. Hooton.

Author

Cooper, Tom, 1970-

Publication

• Solihull : Helion & Company, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ebrahimi, Sirous
• Hooton, E. R.

Description

70 pages, x pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (chiefly color); 30 cm.

Summary

Nominally at least, the bloody and ruinous eight-year war fought between Iran and Iraq was a confrontation dominated by operations on land. The traditional impression is that the resources devoted to naval warfare were minute in comparison to those of its major land battlefields. As so often, the reality is almost diametrically opposite. Certainly enough, the horrendous casualties incurred in major land offensives make the Iran-Iraq War one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century. It escaped public attention that the mass of what was happening on these battlefields was decided by naval warfare and that indeed, the consequences of that naval warfare led to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and the country's subsequent downfall into chaos and civil war. During the first year of the Iran-Iraq War, Iranian naval activity began to prove decisive for the country's ability to continue waging the war. Not only was its primary point of exporting crude oil - Khark Island - in the northern Persian Gulf, but Iran became heavily dependent on hauling reinforcements and supplies from ports in the lower and central Gulf, foremost Bandar-e Abbas and Bushehr, to the modern and huge port of Bandar-e Khomeyni in the north. This in turn prompted the Iraqis to attempt interrupting both of these flows. Iraqi deployed the full spectrum of their arsenal including the Aeorspatiale AM.39 Exocet anti-ship missile, which saw its first combat deployment at least six months before its use during the Falklands War. However, much of this story this has remained unknown beyond superficial insight into the 'Tanker War'.

Series Statement

Middle East@war ; No. 56

Uniform Title

Middle East@war ; no. 56.

Subject

• 1980-1988
• Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 > Naval operations
• Military operations, Naval

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFG 24-109

ISBN

• 9781914377204
• 1914377206

OCLC

1276799976

Author

Cooper, Tom, 1970- author.

Title

Iran-Iraq naval war. Volume 1, Opening blows September-November 1980 / Tom Cooper, Sirous Ebrahimi and E.R. Hooton.

Publisher

Solihull : Helion & Company, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Middle East@war ; No. 56

Middle East@war ; no. 56.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1980-1988

Added Author

Ebrahimi, Sirous, author.

Hooton, E. R., author.

Research Call Number

JFG 24-109