A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.
This book is a major reinterpretation of the Iran-Iraq War and is a source for reexamining the U.S. involvement in the Gulf. Pelletiere demonstrates that the war was not a...
This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.
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The Iran-Iraq War: New Weapons, Old Conflicts
The final index entry of "zero-sum game" aptly encapsulates much about the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War (or Gulf War I as the author terms it) and its spinoff of the 1991 Gulf War II, particularly from the perspective of the US. Torock (whose ...
This volume takes a fresh look at the legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in today. The chapters deal with social, political and cultural debates around the conflict that have emerged in Iran in the aftermath of the war.
Bringing together Israeli, American and European specialists from the fields of Middle East history, international relations, strategy and economics, this book offers the first comprehensive post bellum analysis of the impact and ...
The focus of this book is on the historical, economic and political dimensions of the war between Iraq and Iran.
Addressing a disparity between international relations and Middle Eastern area studies, this book fills an important gap in the existing scholarly literature on the causes of war.
The Iran-Iraq War was personified by the determination and ambition of the key leaders, Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, and characterised by mass casualties, the repression of the civilian populations and chemical warfare.