Download Iranian Army Iran Iraq War Background. .this week, iraq invaded iran and what has been described as the 20th century's longest conventional war but he had reckoned without the intense religious devotion of many iranians toward their new i felt from the beginning they are putting down the morale of the army. Iran has yet to learn, as the union army eventually did, that wars are won by destroying the enemy's armed forces in the field and its economic ability to wage war.

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Iran has yet to learn, as the union army eventually did, that wars are won by destroying the enemy's armed forces in the field and its economic ability to wage war. Khomeini was still in the process of becoming the unchallenged iranian leader, but he had not solidified his power. The iraq invasion plan called for a series of preemptive airstrikes to cripple the iranian air force, followed up by a ground assault.

The iraq invasion plan called for a series of preemptive airstrikes to cripple the iranian air force, followed up by a ground assault.

800,000 iranians and 300,000 iraqi's were killed. War, was an armed conflict between the armed forces of iraq and iran, lasting from september 1980 to august 1988, making it the longest conventional war of. Estimates of total casualties range from 1,000,000 to twice that number. A page for describing usefulnotes: