Annie Tracy Samuel is a scholar specializing in the modern history of Iran and the Middle East. She is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and previously served as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her publications include journal articles in International Security and Diplomatic History; her commentary on current events has been published in Lawfare, The Hill, CNN, and The Atlantic; and she has delivered talks at universities and conferences and briefed government agencies in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
1. Introduction
2. Guards: the establishment of the IRGC
3. Historians: the IRGC's history of the Iran-Iraq war
4. Striking while the Revolution's hot: the causes of the Iran-Iraq war
5. Willing and unable: Iran confronts the Iraqi invasion
6. The epic of Khorramshahr: Iran in the war from occupation to liberation
7. Pursuing the aggressor: Iran's invasion of Iraq
8. War for peace: the Iran-Iraq war, 1985-1987
9. An end to a war without end: the Iran-Iraq war, 1987-1988
10. Faith and firepower: Iran's prosecution of the Iran-Iraq war
11. The holy defense continues: the Iran-Iraq war and Iran's national security
12. Unfinished history: the IRGC and the Holy Defense Research and Documentation Center since the war
13. Keeping the war alive: the IRGC's commitment to writing the history of the Iran-Iraq war.
