There have been conflicts in the Middle East since the beginning of human civilization in that region. However, conflicts appear to be especially common since the end of the First World War, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Was the Middle East involved in WW2? Yes, the Middle East and Nor...
I come from a ‘Military Family’ with a Great Grandfather who fought in the Zulu War of 1879, a Grandfather that saw active service with the Fleet Air Arm in WW2 and a Father in the RAF. I was first introduced to the Battlefield in 1984 on an Operational Tour to the Falkland ...
ww2dbaseDuring the Anglo-Iraqi War, London was alarmed by the intelligence indicating Vichy High Commissioner in Syria, Admiral Henri Dentz, had allowed German aircraft to refuel in his territory. Some evidence also pointed to Dentz supplying Iraqi nationalists with weapons. Believing that Vichy Fran...
of the enemy as “Nazis” (Segal Citation2023) dehumanises the enemy as being an evil enemy that exists outside humanity and reaffirms the same processes of racialisation that Hamas used in targeting innocent Jewish people in the October 7th attacks and that the Nazis used during WW2. ...
This section offers news briefs from the petroleum industry of the Middle East. An initial deal to overhaul the onshore Awali oilfield in Bahrain has been signed by U.S. independent Occidental Petroleum (Oxy). A plan to more than double gas production to 400 billion cubic meter per year (...
Nationalism, War, and The Future of The Middle East By S. Farah for Syria Comment – January 25, 2019 “Nationalism is a great danger for Europe, for all the European countries. In the history of Europe, nationalism has always meant wars, and the last great war started right in the hea...
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 210 10.02.15) The Middle East is spiraling into chaos and war at an alarming rate. It went from a war of words between President Obama and President Putin at the UN on Monday to the Russians bombing targets in Syria
east by echelon troops trying to get out before they were put ‘into the bag’. General Cunningham himself barely escaped with his plane taking off after a visit to 30 Corps HQ while being shelled by German tanks approaching the landing strip where he boarded it. During the flight to ...
The play begins in central Asia and will spread throughout the Asian continent, East China and west towards the Mediterranean, then to Africa and Europe Describe the impact of theplague during European society 1/3 of the European population died, death toll sped up the changes occurring to Eur...
A book about a country or culture you have never visited: The Map of Salt and Stars (Middle East/North Africa) A book that won an award: Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Pulitzer Prize winner, but my least favorite book of the summer) ...