Fighting World War Three from the Middle East

Fighting World War Three from the Middle East
Author: Michael J. Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136246983

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.

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.

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.

The Cold War U.S. Army

The Cold War U.S. Army
Author: Ingo Trauschweizer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Focuses on the Seventh Army in West Germany--the largest and best-prepared field army ever deployed by the U.S. in peacetime--to show how the U.S. army redefined its identity, structure, and mission in order to avoid obsolescence during the Cold War era of nuclear weapons and air power.