| Description |
1 online resource (30 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Strategy and doctrine formation. -- Historical and ideological influences on IRI doctrine. -- Key characteristics of IRI doctrine.-- A model of IRI doctrine. -- Conclusion: IRI's evolving military. -- About the author. -- Notes |
| Summary |
This study lays out how formal and informal structures in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) create strategy and doctrine, which institutions or individuals matter in shaping doctrinal ideas, and which historical and ideological factors drive IRI thinking about military power. The analytic framework provides a way to model the nature of IRI defensive and offensive doctrines, and it aims to explain how and why Iranian strategy and force posture may evolve as restrictions on resources and conventional weapon acquisitions are relaxed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Rather than attempting to provide Tehran's military operational manual, this study attempts to demonstrate how to conceptualize and study IRI military doctrine |
| Notes |
"February 2017"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (AEI, viewed February 21, 2017) |
| Subject |
Military doctrine -- Iran
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Military doctrine.
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Military policy.
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- Military policy
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| Subject |
Iran.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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