Strategic Assessment
Research Forum | November 2002

Following the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, the Iraqi military was the largest in the Middle East and the strongest in the Gulf. However, during the 1991 Gulf War, it lost nearly half of its inventory. In the more than 10 years since the war, it has continued to weaken due to the following factors
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