The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988: books plus

[Schmedlap]

I cannot personally vouch for these, but these titles are in the endnotes to Chapter 7 of Pollack's "The Persian Puzzle."

The Lessons of Modern War, vol. 2, The Iran-Iraq War (Cordesman and Wagner)
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (Hiro)

Update: This from the endnotes to "Eternal Iran" by Rubin and Clawson...

The Cordesman/Wagner piece is identified as "the definitive study", but they point out an "excellent short summary by Karsh The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 and state the Hiro's book, above, "is inconsistent, mixing solid research and significant errors." Lastly they state that "Iraqi military performance during the war - though not the war as a whole - is analyzed in Kennth Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991."