This monograph provides an assessment of Iranian warfighting abilities at the operational level during the eight years of the Iran-Iraq War. It also looks at post-war Iranian arms purchases and training exercises to predict future Iranian operational warfighting abilities. The assessment of Iranian warfighting abilities is framed within the structure established by United States Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Pamphlet 11-9, Blueprint of the Battlefield. The pamphlet details six Operational Operating Systems (OOSs): operational movement and maneuver, operational fires, operational protection, operational command and control, operational intelligence, and operational support. This monograph concludes that future Iranian warfighting abilities at the operational level will be anchored on a formidable missile capability and a growing, maturing, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) equipped and trained to conduct both conventional and unconventional warfare.
Iranian Operational Warfighting Ability: An Historical Assessment and View to the Future
1992
52 pages
Report
No indication
English
Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Iran , Battlefields , Control , Doctrine , Intelligence , Iraq , Maneuvers , Protection , Structures , Training , Unconventional warfare , United states , Warfare , Military operations , Military capabilties , Armed Forces(Foreign) , Operational , Operating systems , Blueprint , Operational warfare , OOS(Operational Operating Systems)