{"title":"They Were Expendable","authors":"A. Tabatabai","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197534601.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197534601.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the Iran-Iraq War and its implications for Iran’s security thinking and military affairs. It posits that the country’s experience with the wars it fought in the Qajar era shaped its thinking as pertaining to this conflict and that the Iran-Iraq War in turn has drawn the contours of much of Iran’s security thinking since then. The chapter also assesses how the war led to the Islamic Republic following in on the Shah’s footsteps and resuming and accelerating many key programs and projects started decades prior.","PeriodicalId":156564,"journal":{"name":"No Conquest, No Defeat","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129611197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"A. Tabatabai","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197534601.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197534601.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The Conclusion answers questions first posed in the Introduction pertaining to the drivers shaping Iran’s national security thinking and policies, including its nuclear and missile programs, support for armed militias and terrorist groups, and regional interventions. It argues that the elements of continuity described throughout the book demonstrate that the core assumption held in the scholarship on revolutions—according to which revolutions necessarily mark a total departure from the part—may not capture the complexity of countries’ national security thinking. And Conclusion also discusses the policy implications of this finding and warns that a different regime in Iran may not act fundamentally differently from the current one as many may hope.","PeriodicalId":156564,"journal":{"name":"No Conquest, No Defeat","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128699014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Revolution","authors":"Ariane M. Tabatabai","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197534601.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197534601.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of the Islamic Revolution. It explores the roots of the revolution and the forces that shaped it. In particular, the chapter focuses on the elements of Iran’s national and internal security policies that both helped usher in the Islamic Republic and those that the assumptions the revolution reinforced within Iran’s leadership and populace.","PeriodicalId":156564,"journal":{"name":"No Conquest, No Defeat","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130323880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}