Abstract
By 1984, and after four years of its inconclusive war with Iran, the Iraqi leadership realized that its army could not achieve a decisive victory. The strategic and political objectives which Saddam Hussein had hoped to obtain by mounting a Blitzkrieg type of operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in September 1980, were clearly out of reach.
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© 1998 Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly
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El-Shazly, N.ES. (1998). Introduction: The War Iraq Started and Could Not End. In: The Gulf Tanker War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26304-2_1
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