I: The causes and context of the conflict
Introduction
Iran's revolution and Iraq's ambitions
II: The early operations
The Iraqi offensive of September 1980 and the failure of Saddam's 'limited war'
Human waves: Iran's counter-offensives into Iraq
Escalation: operations Wa al Fajr and Khaibar, 1984
Foreign intervention, 1980-84
III: The search for a decisive results
Turning point: operations Badr and Fao, 1985-86
War of the cities. home fronts, internal security and insurgency
IV: Breaking the impasse
The Tanker War, the arms trade and international interventions, 1985-87
The failure of strategy: Iranian offensives and Iraqi counter-offensives, 1987-88
Fuelling the flames: gulf operations, 1987-88
V: Consequences and conclusions
The Iran-Iraq war in retrospect.
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The Iran-Iraq War by Robert Johnson. ISBN 9780230577749. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
