The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988: books plus

[SteveMetz]

Lessons Learned: The Iran-Iraq War by Stephen Pelletiere and Douglas Johnson, originally published by SSI in '91. An earlier draft version, published by the USMC as FMFRP 3-203, is available online at FAS.

A decent companion volume is Ronald Bergquist's The Role of Airpower in the Iran-Iraq War published right at the end of the war in '88. The link is to a pdf version, or you can get a hard copy through Amazon.

If you really want exhaustive detail, then try Cordesman and Wagner's 647 page The Lessons Of Modern War Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War

If you're interested in the Johnson--Pelletiere monograph, don't buy it from Amazon! It makes us nuts that used book dealers take free publications and sell them. If you want it, I'll see if I can find one laying around SSI. If not, I'll loan you mine.

[jcustis]

Splendid references gentlemen. I actually prefer smaller articles that focus the topic, and will look to the Cordesman book (for the actual deploy) after I have digested these gems over the next few weeks.

[jcustis]

All were excellent recommendations. The articles dealing with the beginning of the war and one of the latter phases, as well as the Fish Lake material, was excellent and just what I was seeking. On to the Cordesman book.

[davidbfpo]

There is a newly published book 'The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives' edited by Nigel Ashton and Bryan Gibson; pub. Routledge, 2012. It has no reviews on Amazon.com or the UK Amazon site, perhaps the US$115 helps to explain:http://www.amazon.com/Iran-Iraq-War-...l+Perspectives