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Learning from the history of British interventions in the Middle East / Louise Kettle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kettle, Louise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- Great Britain.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Middle East.
- Great Britain--History, Military--20th century.
- Great Britain--History, Military--21st century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh University Press 2018
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; 1 Learning from History; Learning from History in Whitehall; Politicians Learning from History; Learning from the History of Military Interventions; How Do We Learn?; What is Learning from History?; Who Learns from History?; The Learning Process; Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East; 2 No End of a Lesson
- Suez 1956; Planning the Intervention; During the Intervention; After the Intervention; Musketeer Learning; 3 More like Korea
- Jordan 1958; Planning the Intervention; During the Intervention; After the Intervention.
- Fortitude Learning4 Suez in Reverse
- Kuwait 1961; Planning the Intervention; During the Intervention; After the Intervention; Vantage Learning; 5 A Re-Run of Port Stanley
- The Gulf 1990-1; Planning the Intervention; During the Intervention; After the Intervention; Granby Learning; 6 Afghanistan Part Two
- Iraq 2003-9; Planning the Intervention; During the Intervention; After the Intervention; Telic Learning; 7 Failing History or Lessons Learned?; Learning from History since Iraq; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9781474437981
- 1474437982
- 9781474437974
- 1474437974
- OCLC:
- 1312726003
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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