Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Seyyed Yahya Safavi

Assistant Professor, Imam Hosein University

Abstract

Ground offensive forces, though with high mobility potential, if lacking air support facilities, will have to pass wide rivers by swimming or boat, and in some cases by building a bridge over the river, without decreasing their advancing speed; and this is so while the enemy's defense forces have been deployed on the other shore of the river. The passage of the Islamic Revolutionary Forces over the Arvand Roud during the Valfajr 8 Operation (Faw - Feb. 09, 1985) was an example of courageous operation and excellent military design.