The Iranian Revolution: Revalidating Crane Brinton's Model of Revolutions for the Operational and Strategic Planner

: Crane Brinton's analysis of popular revolutions offers the strategic and operational planner a valid mode for checking the consistency of ends, ways and means, for campaign plans. As a planning tool, Brinton's model fills a gap in FM 100-20, which all but ignores 'popular' revolutions. Furthermore, Brinton's model discusses post-revolt dynamics, another area devoid of good analysis. This monograph revalidates Brinton's 1938 model using the Iranian Revolution as a test case, proving the timelessness of sound thought.