"Minor updates to some of the original text and statistics have been made for this paperback edition"--Title page verso.
Originally published: 2009.
Introduction: The Iranian phoenix
Heritage of greatness, legacy of loss
Powerful predecessors: The Safavids and Nader Shah
Laughingstock: The Qajar military
Nationalism unleashed: From revolution to the Great War
Two paths: The birth of the modern Iranian armed forces
Sidelined: The world at war in Iran
Cold War pillar: The rise of the imperial armed forces
Old guard, new guard: Iran's armed forces in the Islamic Revolution
Horrible sacrifice: The Iran-Iraq War
Despise not your enemy: Iran's armed forces in the twenty-first century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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Immortal : a military history of Iran and its armed forces by Steven R. Ward. ISBN 9781626160323. Published by Georgetown University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
