Williamson Murray, Kevin Woods

The Iran-Iraq War

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781107673922
• ISBN-10: 1107673925
• Artikelnr.: 40909860

Autorenporträt

Williamson Murray has just completed a two-year stint as a Minerva Fellow at the Naval War College and is at present serving as an adjunct professor at the Marine Corps University. He is also Emeritus of History at Ohio State University. At present he is a defense consultant and commentator on historical and military subjects in Washington, DC. He is co-editor of The Making of Peace (with Jim Lacey), The Past as Prologue (with Richard Hart Sinnreich), The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 (with MacGregor Knox), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (with Allan R. Millett), and The Making of Strategy (with Alvin Bernstein and MacGregor Knox).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A context of 'bitterness and anger'
3. The opponents
4. 1980: the Iraqi invasion begins
5. 1981-2: stalemate
6. Defeat and recovery
7. 1983-4: a war of attrition
8. 1985-6: dog days of a long war
9. 1987-8: an end in sight?
10. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.