The Iranian Revolution's Everyman -- Baptism by Fire -- War with Iraq -- The Lebanon Corps -- The Hezbollah Trojan Horse -- The Khobar Towers Bombing -- The Qods Force in Afghanistan -- The Qods Force and 9/11 -- Iran and al-Qaeda -- Iran and Afghanistan after 9/11 -- The Greater Prize -- A Multidimensional Campaign in Iraq -- Task Force -- Undeclared Covert War -- Overlord of Iraq -- The Saudi Ambassador Plot -- The Yemen Trap -- Encircled -- The Odd Couple -- A Qods Force Tragedy -- Coalition Warfare -- General Soleimani Goes to Moscow -- Entrenchment -- Everywhere but Nowhere -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Owen Sirrs analyzes how Iran uses unconventional warfare to try to achieve one of its most cherished objectives, hegemony over the Middle East, and demonstrates how U.S. policymakers and warfighters were repeatedly stymied by Iran's unconventional warfare strategy, which straddled the threshold between conventional and covert warfare"-- Provided by publisher.
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