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To: nuconvert

I highly recommend the book “The Longest War” by Dilip Hiro. It provides very interesting and important insights into the Iran/Iraq war and, although published prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, reveals what was very likely Saddam Hussein’s true motive for doing so.


4 posted on 10/03/2010 7:18:49 AM PDT by Senator John Blutarski (The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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Yep, Hiro's book is in my military history library.

I've always found the Iran-Iraq War very fascinating since it essentially was fought using a combination of ground tactics from both World Wars coupled with modern technology.

In the air war, the use of SCUDs by both sides was reminiscent of Hitler's V-2 strikes on Antwerp and London, while the Iranian F-14A Tomcats wreaked havoc with the Iraqi Air Force.

Good reading and worthy of far more research and analysis than has previously been done.

5 posted on 10/03/2010 8:57:27 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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