Abstract
This chapter deals with two arms of the Iraqi Armed Forces—the Naval forces and the Surface to Surface Missile (SSM) forces. It describes the development of the Iraqi Navy from a small arm whose purpose was to guard Iraq’s narrow strip of coast along the Persian Gulf (called by the Iraqis, the “Arab Gulf”), to a capable force that played an important role in the Iraq-Iran war by gaining supremacy over the Iranian navy and driving it out of the northern part of the Gulf. It describes also the development of the Iraqi SSM arm, especially during the Iraq-Iran war, and afterwards, its strategic importance, and the problem to fight against it, as it was demonstrated during the Gulf war in 1991.
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