Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781474437950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 292 str.

Louise Kettle

Opis

Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intelligence agency officials, Louise Kettle questions whether the British government has learned anything from its military interventions in the Middle East, from the 1950s to the 2016 Iraq Inquiry report.

Spis treści

1. Learning from History; 2. No End of a Lesson – Suez 1956; 3. More like Korea – Jordan 1958; 4. Suez in Reverse – Kuwait 1961; 5. A Re-Run of Port Stanley – The Gulf 1990–1; 6. Afghanistan Part Two – Iraq 2003–9; 7. Failing History or Lessons Learned?; Notes; Index.