Williamson Murray: The Iran-Iraq War

Cover: 9781107673922 | The Iran-Iraq War | Williamson Murray (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders. It explores the rationale and decision-making processes that drove the Iraqis as they grappled with challenges that, at times, threatened their existence. Beginning with the bizarre lack of planning by the Iraqis in their invasion of Iran, the authors reveal Saddam's desperate attempts to improve the competence of an officer corps that he had purged to safeguard its loyalty to his tyranny, and then to weather the storm of suicidal attacks by Iranian religious revolutionaries. This is a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the history of war and the contemporary Middle East.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107673922
ISBN-10:	1107673925
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Murray, Williamson Woods, Kevin
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Williamson Murray (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.09.2014
Gewicht:	0,594 kg