Iran and Iraq war data were obtained from internet and curve-fitted with Lanchester/Osipov war model. It was found that the data obeys the square law and that the war was a mixed one of 10.8% guerilla and 89.2% conventional as depicted by their parameters in the model. Also it was found that Iraq heavily used Chemical weapon (e.g. mustard gas, arsenic, mytotoxic) against Iranian soldiers. This ...

War is one of the critical determinants of health status of populations in many parts of the world. Armed con-fl ict has been a major cause of deaths and morbidity throughout the history. 3 In the 25 confl icts during the 20 th century, 72 million deaths were confl ict-related and civilians were included in nearly half of the deaths during the armed confl icts from 1987 to1997. Two million chil...

The main objective of this study was to investigate whether the sex ratio at birth (SRB, male proportion) alter in Iraq during its war against Iran (1980-1988). Here we compared 785 births (348 males, 437 females) during 1980-1989 with 1144 births (655 males, 489 females) before 1980 and 2914 births (1496 males, 1418 females) after 1989 in Fallujah, Iraq. The SRB significantly decreased during ...

Background: Secular trends in stature, weight and mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) of the same age (6.5-11.5 years) and sex in representative samples from primary schools of Shiraz (southern Iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988 vs 2003) are reported. Methods: Cross-sectional weight, height and mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) curves were ...

The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1998 32 Dr. Eric Arnett is leader of the Project on Military Technology at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is the author of numerous books and articles on security and nonproliferation issues, including the recent edited volume Military Capacity and the Risk of War: China, India, Pakistan and Iran (Oxford University Press, 1997...

background: the main aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depression and general anxiety of the prisoners of war (pow) children. the study was also designed to compare the prevalence of depression and general anxiety amongst the pow’s children and normal adults, 20 years after the iraq-iran war.method: an analytic cross-sectional study carried out in june 2009 in yazd (the centre o...

The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of UpheavalJames L. Gelvin, ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. $28.00. 368 pp.Revolutionary Life: Everyday the Arab SpringAsef Bayat. Cambridge, MA: Harvard £30.95/$35.00. 336 pp.The Unfinished History Iran–Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary GuardsAnnie Tracy Samuel. Cambridge: Cambridge £75.00. 302 pp.Escaping Conflict Tr...

PURPOSE Nurses played a critical role in performing triage during the Iran-Iraq War. However, their experiences in triage have not been discussed. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the triage experiences of civilian nurses during the Iran-Iraq War. METHODS Oral history method and in-depth interviews were used to collect data to gain the nurses' experiences in triage. RESULTS...