Iraq's armed forces an analytical history - Al-Marashi, Ibrahim; Salama, Sammy (Routledge, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- The mandate army -- Creation, conscription, and cohesion 1921-1936 -- Praetorian Iraq -- The military moderator regimes 1936-1941 -- Dismantling the military moderator regime 1941-1958 -- Military coups and the ruler regimes 1958-1968 -- The totalitarian military -- The Baathification of the military 1968-1980 -- The totalitarian military and the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1984 -- The reassertion of the Iraqi officers 1984-1988 -- Wars, coups, sanctions, and collapse 1988-2003 -- The mandate army redux -- The US and the Iraqi army