From the Book - Regular Print - First paperback edition.
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
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.