Immortal a military history of Iran and its armed forces /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
c2009.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.