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• W1558701606 abstract "1. During the post-1945 era British political and military leaders switched their attention from the conduct of a total war to the prosecution of small wars in defence of imperial commitments around the world. The history of counter-insurgency campaigns in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus provide evidence for the notion that British post-war leaders remained wedded to the global role despite the existence of new commitments on the continent of Europe. The purposes of Britains late colonial wars varied but as a minimum they had as their aim the establishment of sufficient order for the smooth hand-over of power to local elites sympathetic to western interests. By this criterion the least successful of all these small wars was fought in Southwest Arabia. In the town of Aden and the surrounding Protectorates British determination to maintain their interests came into conflict with the sudden emergence of an active independence movement fuelled by the post-Suez growth of Arab nationalism. During the course of the late 1950s and 1960s Aden became the site of a campaign of urban terrorism in which opposition groups fought with the British and each other. Outside the town in the Western Aden Protectorate (WAP) tribal rebellions began to take the form of nationalist uprisings. During 1967 Britains allies among the rulers of the WAP states found their positions usurped by the National Liberation Front (NLF), while the rulers of the Eastern Aden Protectorate (EAP), who had managed to keep their territories out of the worst of the conflict, were suddenly ejected by the militant nationalists. In Aden the NLF defeated the rival Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) and declared the creation of a Marxist-oriented Peoples Republic of South Yemen. (1) The British conducted a reasonably orderly withdrawal but left behind a state of near anarchy. It is estimated that half a million people fled to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and East Africa while the new government conducted an extensive purge of its opponents. (2) Decolonisation in Southwest Arabia did not match the Whitehall ideal of an orderly hand over of power to responsible and pro-Western elements. 2. The aetiology of this disaster can be found in a complex web of local military and political developments, shifts in the regional balance of power in the Middle East, the rise of anti-colonial sentiment, both internationally and in the British metropolis, and the transformation of Southwest Arabia into a Cold War battleground. Of these factors the nature of British military operations in the region was particularly significant. The counter-insurgency campaigns conducted in the Western Aden Protectorate were often successful in the short term but had long-term consequences which weakened British influence. Three case studies of British military campaigns illustrate the counter-productive nature of the tactics employed. The frontier war with Yemen in 1958-59 demonstrates the willingness of the British to carry the war across the frontier into Yemen in an effort to end arms supplies to the insurgents. The bombing campaign conducted in the Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom in 1959-60 illustrates the role of aerial proscription and the gradual shift in British tactics towards larger scale land-air operations. Operation PARK in Dhala in 1965 may be regarded as the culmination of this tendency towards larger-scale combined arms operations. Although in each case the British achieved their immediate objectives, the victories chalked up in these campaigns had unfortunate consequences for the British and their regional allies. Attacks on the Imamate contributed to its overthrow and the emergence of an even more hostile regime aligned with Nasser, aerial proscription played a role in politicising tribes that had previously had little contact with British authority and the larger scale land-air proscription campaigns of the 1960s undermined the local federal leaders on whom the British relied to sustain their position. In none of these cases did military action address the grievances which were the source of the conflict. 3. The British government was aware that the conduct of these colonial campaigns appeared oddly anachronistic in the era of decolonisation but the various reappraisals of policy towards Aden and the Protectorates constantly turned on the overriding importance of oil to the British economy. Commercially viable oil deposits were not discovered in Southwest Arabia until 1984, two decades after the British departure, but during the 1950s the base at Aden was seen as the key to maintaining the supply of oil from the Persian Gulf which literally fuelled the expansion of western European economies during that decade. An inter-departmental committee examining the importance of Middle East oil reported to the Cabinet on 14 October 1955 that Middle East oil is vital to our economy. This is not a matter of priorities as between one area of the world and another in the cold war but an essential need. (3) For the British the key source of Middle East oil exports was Kuwait, which from 1958 was itself threatened by the irredentist claims of post-revolutionary Iraq. (4) In 1961 the British conducted a successful military intervention in Kuwait in response to heightened Iraqi threats to the Emirate. This operation appeared to justify the importance of maintaining a military presence in the Arabian peninsula and vindicate the strategy of utilising the Aden base for this purpose. (5) However, the defence of the base required in turn the defence of the Protectorate states which formed its hinterland. The whole of the region was claimed by the Yemeni Imam, Ahmed, and after the 1962 revolution by the Yemeni Republican government, which aligned itself with Nasser in demanding the removal of British influence from Arabia. Macmillan explained the situation to Kennedy in November 1962: If we lost the Protectorate we should be left with Aden. But Aden was not like Gibraltar, which could be defended If we lost the Protectorate and were in serious trouble in Aden, still worse if we lost Aden, we should be deprived of all means of defending our own and our clients in the Gulf. (6) In order to protect what was perhaps its most important overseas interest in Kuwait the British government found itself forced to conduct a series of military campaigns in Southwest Arabia." @default.
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• W1558701606 title "From Tribal Rebellions to Revolution: British Counter-Insurgency Operations in Southwest Arabia 1955-67" @default.
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