Immortal : : a Military History of Iran and its Armed Forces

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"In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."
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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PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xiii, 380 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781589012585
1589012585

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Georgetown University.

SUBJECTS
Iran -- History, Military.
Iran -- History.