Iran's Military Forces and Warfighting Capabilities

Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is an analyst and commentator for ABC News. He has written extensively on energy and Middle East politics, economics, demographics, and security. He has served in a number of senior positions in the U.S. government, including the Department of Energy, and several assignments in the Middle East.Martin Kleiber is a researcher at the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. He previously worked on security sector reform and nuclear non-proliferation at the German Foreign Office, in Bosnia, and at the United Nations. He has published on the nuclear non-proliferation regime and Iran as well as U.S. foreign and defense policy and he is the co-author of Chinese Military Modernization: Force Development and Security Capabilities together with Anthony H. Cordesman.

"In this encyclopedic, informative book, Cordesman and Kleiber provide detailed data on Iran's current military capabilities and the structure of its armed forces, including the Revolutionary Guard Corps. They also describe Iran's missile capabilities and its evolving nuclear program. This is one of the most comprehensive books on mainstream American perspectives on Iran's military challenges to Persian Gulf stability, but it should be balanced by reading original Iranian sources that deal with existing and very real threats to the country's national security and territorial integrity. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - Choice