"The following pages contain six chapters discussing the importance of incorporating culture into current and future operations. Several of the authors draw extensively on their personal operating experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing important 'boots on the ground' perspectives. Others carefully evaluate our current capacity in light of the cultural challenges we will face in future deployments around the globe: offering potential solutions for the future."--Page ix.

Shipping list no.: 2010-0019-P. "The symposium from which these essays originated offered a forum to enhance the overall understanding of Iran, exploring its internal dynamics, regional perspectives, and extra-regional factors and examining its near-term political and strategic options and their potential impact on the United States and the Marine Corps"--p. v. Shipping List #: 2010-0019-P.

Foreword /by Donald R. Gardner -- Introduction / by Amin Tarzi -- Iran under Ahmadinejad / by Ali M. Ansari -- Talking to Tehran : with whom, about what, and how? / by Karim Sadjadpour -- When U.S.-Iranian negotiations start : a primer / by Ronald E. Neumann -- The Iranian nuclear issue / by Simon Shercliff -- Iran's policies and Iraq / by Mohsen M. Milani -- Iran in the Israeli threat perception / by Gerald M. Steinberg -- Epilogue : The 2009 Iranian presidential election and its implications / by Karim Sadjapour.