The Iran-Iraq War
By: Rob Johnson
Series: Twentieth-century wars
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780230577749; 9780230577732
Subjects: Influence; Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I: The causes and context of the conflict; title: Introduction; title: Iran's revolution and Iraq's ambitions; title: II: The early operations; title: The Iraqi offensive of September 1980 and the failure of Saddam's 'limited war'; title: Human waves: Iran's counter-offensives into Iraq; title: Escalation: operations Wa al Fajr and Khaibar, 1984; title: Foreign intervention, 1980-84; title: III: The search for a decisive results; title: Turning point: operations Badr and Fao, 1985-86; title: War of the cities. home fronts, internal security and insurgency; title: IV: Breaking the impasse; title: The Tanker War, the arms trade and international interventions, 1985-87; title: The failure of strategy: Iranian offensives and Iraqi counter-offensives, 1987-88; title: Fuelling the flames: gulf operations, 1987-88; title: V: Consequences and conclusions; title: The Iran-Iraq war in retrospect.