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Immortal : a military history of Iran and its armed forces

Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history
eBook, English, ©2009
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., ©2009
History
1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) : maps, plans
9781589015883, 9781589015876, 9781626160651, 1589015886, 1589015878, 1626160651
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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