Security in the Gulf: Local Militaries Before British Withdrawal

by Ash Rossiter

Book Overview

The British Empire employed a diverse range of strategies to establish and then maintain control over its overseas territories in the Middle East. This new interpretation of how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its withdrawal from the region in 1971 looks at how the British government increasingly sought to achieve security with great economy of force by building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108488374
• ISBN13: 9781108488372
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"