Rogue State — Douglas de Bono

Over the bloody and dusty sands known as the Shatt el Arab, Saddam Hussein, embittered by the Gulf War, and Ayatollah Kambiz Abbasi, struggling to recover from a nuclear event, plot to punish America and Russia. The hollowed out Russian Army is bogged down in a dirty little war to suppress the Chechen rebellion, and Abbasi, in the spirit of Islamic fundamentalism, recruits Parvez Hyder?