Iraq's armed forces
Subtitle: an analytical history
By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Sammy Salama.
Contributors: Salama, Sammy.
Series: Middle Eastern military studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780415400787; 9780203928769
Subjects: Iraq -- Armed Forces -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The mandate army; title: Creation, conscription and cohesion 1921-1936; title: Praetorian Iraq; title: Iraq's military moderator regimes 1936-1941; title: Dismantling the military moderator regime 1941-1958; title: Military coups and the ruler regimes 1958-1968; title: The totalitarian military; title: The Baathification of the military 1968-1980; title: The totalitarian military and the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1984; title: The reassertion of the Iraqi officers 1984-1988; title: Wars, coups, sanctions and collapse 1988-2003; title: The mandate army redux; title: The US and the Iraqi army; title: Conclusion.