Probably the largest conventional military conflict of the cold war, largely insulated between two big countries with large militaries, yet so little talked about in proportion to how it stands out in a sea of proxy wars. Why?
Proxy war? It was more like pic rel with the rest of the world supporting both sides to cause as much damage as possible.
>>64202048Was it really? Iran was mostly on its own for most of the conflict.
>>64202052They were receiving spares to keep their western aircraft operative despite the embargo, that includes the F-14sMeanwhile Iraq received assistance, then bombing, then assistance, and then bombing again some years afterwards.
>>64202037>Why?Because it was ragheads vs ragheads in which both subsets of raghead performed atrociously and the only thing of note is the foreign bought systems and how they misused them because as the shift in international borders indicates, it was clearly a waste of everyone's time. Same thing with the various Indo-Pakistani wars.
>>64202037>Why?we don't know anything at all about what really happenedneither side's accounts of anything they or anyone else did is at all trustworthy
>>64202260>>64202266>>64202271What book are these big excerpts from?
>>64202037>Two regional powers with mostly "modern" weapons for the time>Rag heads immediately go for ww1 style trench warfare because cant into competent force>Why isn't this covered more?
The lack of footage from this war is sad. A lot of cool shit happened but I can only find the same few videos online.
>>64202298Literal the Ukraine war expect instead of Rag heads duking it out, its Vodka monkeys.
>>64202286Project 1946 Phase II
>>64202325https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjGnEcpA3khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJ9tNOErM8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsvYtERMMjs
