- Joined
- Mar 13, 2015
The western trained Iranian army and air force during that 8 year war pulled off a miracle with no spare parts and with most of it's officer corp purged.I'd be mad about the Iranian decals but honestly they had more F-14 aces than the US so I've got to concede that point.
However they kicked the iraqis out by 82, the war dragged on for another 6 years because the IRGC promised Khomeini that at any moment now the shia iraqis would rise up and they needed to invade iraq to help, which caused everyone and their grandma in the middle east to send hundreds of billions to saddam to buy french and soviet weapons to keep the iranians out.
Now they are all retired and professional army officers don't last long in ideological autocracies, so any institutional knowledge has been lost.