The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a Vacuum

by Stephen C. Pelletiere

This book is a major reinterpretation of the Iran-Iraq War and is a source for reexamining the U.S. involvement in the Gulf. Pelletiere demonstrates that the war was not a standoff in which Iraq finally won a grinding war of attrition through luck, persistence, and the use of poison gas. Instead, Iraq planned the last campaign almost two years prior to its unfolding. The Iraqis] trained extensively and expended enormous sums of money to make their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275938433
• ISBN13: 9780275938437
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"