An edition of The Iran-Iraq War
(2011)
The Iran-Iraq War
by Johnson, Robert
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"The recent conflicts of the Middle East can be traced directly to the Iran-Iraq War. Rob Johnson provides a sound and clear grasp of the major issues surrounding this war - an essential precursor to understanding the nature of both the Iraqi and Iranian regimes in the 1990s and their regional aspirations, and the ensuing Gulf Wars"--
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Table of Contents
I: The causes and context of the conflict
Introduction
Iran's revolution and Iraq's ambitions
II: The early operations
The Iraqi offensive of September 1980 and the failure of Saddam's 'limited war'
Human waves: Iran's counter-offensives into Iraq
Escalation: operations Wa al Fajr and Khaibar, 1984
Foreign intervention, 1980-84
III: The search for a decisive results
Turning point: operations Badr and Fao, 1985-86
War of the cities. home fronts, internal security and insurgency
IV: Breaking the impasse
The Tanker War, the arms trade and international interventions, 1985-87
The failure of strategy: Iranian offensives and Iraqi counter-offensives, 1987-88
Fuelling the flames: gulf operations, 1987-88
V: Consequences and conclusions
The Iran-Iraq war in retrospect.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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