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200 10$aImmortal$b[electronic resource] $ea military history of Iran and its armed forces /$fSteven R. Ward
210   $aWashington, D.C. $cGeorgetown University Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (395 p.)
300   $a"In cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University."
311   $a1-58901-258-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-361) and index.
327   $aHeritage 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.
330   $aImmortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history.
607   $aIran$xHistory, Military
607   $aIran$xArmed Forces$xHistory
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