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008			150623s2014 nyu 001 0 eng
020			_a9781107673922
082	0	0	_a955.0542
084			_a955.0542 _bMUR-I
100	1		_aMurray, Williamson.
245	1	4	_aThe Iran-Iraq War : _h[Book] : _ba military and strategic history / _cWilliamson Murray and Kevin Woods.
300			_axiv, 397 pages ; _c24 cm.
520			_aThe 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.
521			_aAll.
650		0	_aIran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
700			_aWoods, Kevin M.
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