The Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War
Author: Williamson Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107062292

A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.

Saddam's War

Saddam's War
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher: National Defense University
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Generals
ISBN: 9780160827372

Includes detailed and edited transcripts of interviews with General Hamdani as well as a summary of insights as interpreted by the interviewers.

The Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War
Author: Pierre Razoux
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674088638

From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics, from the deep-rooted distrust between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to Iran’s obsession with nuclear power, to the continuing struggles in Iraq. He provides invaluable keys to decipher Iran’s behavior and internal struggle today. Razoux’s account is based on unpublished military archives, oral histories, and interviews, as well as audio recordings seized by the U.S. Army detailing Saddam Hussein’s debates with his generals. Tracing the war’s shifting strategies and political dynamics—military operations, the jockeying of opposition forces within each regime, the impact on oil production so essential to both countries—Razoux also looks at the international picture. From the United States and Soviet Union to Israel, Europe, China, and the Arab powers, many nations meddled in this conflict, supporting one side or the other and sometimes switching allegiances. The Iran-Iraq War answers questions that have puzzled historians. Why did Saddam embark on this expensive, ultimately fruitless conflict? Why did the war last eight years when it could have ended in months? Who, if anyone, was the true winner when so much was lost?

Saddam's Generals

Saddam's Generals
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011
Genre: Iran
ISBN:

These were Major General Mizher Rashid al-Tarfa al-Ubaydi, a senior officer and section leader in Iraq's military intelligence service dealing with Iran during the conflict; Major General (ret) Aladdin Hussein Makki Khamas, corps chief of staff, division commander, and director of Iraq's Combat Development Directorate during the war; Lieutenant General Abid Mohammed al-Kabi, commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Navy from 1982 to 1988; and Major General 'Alwan Hassoun 'Alwan al-Abousi, a squadron and wing commander during the conflict. As a result of these interviews, the Project 1946 team deepened and extended its understanding of a number of aspects and incidents during the period.

The Iran–Iraq War

The Iran–Iraq War
Author: Williamson Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139993216

The 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.

The Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War
Author: E. R. Hooton
Publisher: Helion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
ISBN: 9781911096566

Title and statement of responsibility from cover.

Threats and Alliances in the Middle East

Threats and Alliances in the Middle East
Author: May Darwich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108493629

Examines Saudi and Syrian policies during three pivotal wars, to understand how identity and power influence state behaviour in the Middle East.

The Mother of All Battles

The Mother of All Battles
Author: Kevin M. Woods
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Events in this story of the "Mother of All Battles," as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, video and audiotapes, maps, and photographs captured by U.S. forces in 2003 from the regime's archives and never intended for outsiders' eyes. The book is part of an official U.S. Joint Forces Command research project to examine contemporary warfare from the point of view of the adversary's archives and senior leader interviews. Its purpose is to stimulate thoughtful analyses of currently accepted lessons of the first Gulf War. While not a comprehensive history, the author's balanced Iraqi perspective of events between 1990 and 1991 takes full advantage of his unique access to material. The result is a completely unknown but fully documented view from the other side.

Saddam's War

Saddam's War
Author: National Defense University
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9781304075383