84-382 Conflicts in the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, and Proxy Warfare

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This class will focus on Iran in the post1979 era, the rise of Lebanese Hezbollah, and various militia groups in Iraq as the face of new modes of warfare. Military institutions were traditionally built on the Clausewitzian theory of stateonstate conflict the postWestphalian world produced new forms of conflict that could not have been predicted. This class will discuss the transformation of warfare in the Middle East with an emphasis on Iran and Iraq. Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran has changed the nature of conventional warfare and ushered in an era of proxy warfare. The lessons learned from the IranIraq war and decades of living under sanctions has cultivated a regime rooted in survivability at all costs. The last four decades demonstrated Iranian endurance while challenging US interests in the Middle East.

Prerequisites: 84-326

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