Fighting World War Three from the Middle East

Fighting World War Three from the Middle East
Author: Michael J. Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136246991

This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East - in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union - argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East in 1945-55 are understandable only in the context of assets sought by the Allies in that region.

Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1948-51

Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1948-51
Author: S. Waldman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137431520

This volume examines British and US attitudes towards the means and mechanisms for the facilitation of an Arab-Israeli reconciliation, focusing specifically on the refugee factor in diplomatic initiatives. It explains why Britain and the US were unable to reconcile the local parties to an agreement on the future of the Palestinian refugees.

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East
Author: Michael Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136313826

Britain emerged from World War II dependent economically and militarily upon the US. Egypt was the hub of Britain's imperial interests in the Middle East, but her inability to maintain a large garrison there was clear to the indigenous peoples. These essays track the decline of the empire.

Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960

Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960
Author: Michael J. Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2004-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135767084

This book presents a synthesis of strategic planning and diplomacy in the Middle East during a critical period The book explains the pivotal role that the young State of Israel played in Middle East politics Will appeal to students of strategy, middle eastern politics and military history.

American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region

American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Author: W. Fain
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230613365

This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.

Immortal

Immortal
Author: Steven R. Ward
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626160651

Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran’s military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran’s soldiers, from the famed “Immortals” of ancient Persia to today’s Revolutionary Guard, have demonstrated through the centuries that they should not be underestimated. This history also provides background on the nationalist, tribal, and religious heritages of the country to help readers better understand Iran and its security outlook. Immortal begins with the founding of ancient Persia’s empire under Cyrus the Great and continues through the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and up to the present. Drawing on a wide range of sources including declassified documents, the author gives primary focus to the modern era to relate the build-up of the military under the last Shah, its collapse during the Islamic revolution, its fortunes in the Iran-Iraq War, and its rise from the ashes to help Iran become once again a major regional military power. He shows that, despite command and supply problems, Iranian soldiers demonstrate high levels of bravery and perseverance and have enjoyed surprising tactical successes even when victory has been elusive. These qualities and the Iranians’ ability to impose high costs on their enemies by exploiting Iran’s imposing geography bear careful consideration today by potential opponents.

Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East

Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East
Author: Oz Hassan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136240446

This book explores how George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the initial stages of the Obama administration. It highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001 led to regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, but more broadly how American policy towards the region had a softer imperial side, which drew on broader economic theories of democratisation and modernisation. The Freedom Agenda contained within it a prescribed method of combating terrorism, but also a method of engaging with and reforming the entire Middle East region more broadly, with many institutions seeking to use the opportunity to implement neo-liberal market logics in the region. Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East highlights the particular understanding of "freedom" that underpins America’s imperial project in the region; a project trapped between a policy of democratisation and domination. This book analyses the Freedom Agenda in significantly more depth than in available current literature and would be of interest to students and researchers of global politics and international foreign policy of recent years.

Fractured Lands

Fractured Lands
Author: Scott Anderson
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0525434445

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region’s profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals—the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women’s rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.

Fighting the People's War

Fighting the People's War
Author: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 967
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107030951

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East

Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East
Author: Magnus Persson
Publisher: Coronet Books
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

The United States took the initiative to the Northern Tier policy, to create a defense barrier along the southern border of the Soviet Union, and this policy later resulted in the Baghdad Pact. This study addresses Anglo-American relations in relation to the Northern Tier policy and the formulation phase of the Baghdad Pact from 1953 to 1955.