U.S. Military Joint Exercises
Today, surviving photographs, reports, military documents, and personal accounts from these exercises provide researchers with valuable material for understanding the Imperial military and its relationship with the United States. They also help document the transformation of armed forces during a period of rapid modernization and the strategic importance of southwestern and the Persian Gulf.
The Dezful and Khark exercises of 1964 therefore stand as a visual and historical record of a significant period in modern military history—an era characterized by military modernization, close American cooperation, and the growing strategic importance of within the Cold War security environment of the Middle East.
