BRITAIN´S PRESSING NEED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IRAQI ARMY

• Authors: Sorby Karol Jr.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Britain was granted a mandate over Iraq to help it advance to readiness for full independence in the San Remo Conference (April 1920) after World War I. In June 1920, an armed revolt against British rule broke out and quickly spread through the mid-Euphrates regions. The heavily armed and surprisingly determined tribes scored a number of early and significant successes. The crushing of the revolt involved besides the cost of lives the expenditure of huge amounts from the British Treasury. Winston Churchill, in taking charge of the Near and Middle East affairs, called a conference to Cairo on March 1921. The questions considered by the conference included the immediate reduction of British expenditure in Iraq with the consequent revision of policy involving 1. future relationship of Iraq to Great Britain; 2. the person of the future ruler of Iraq; 3. the nature and composition of the defence forces of the new state which was to assume an increasing share of its own defence.

Keywords

EN

MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY; BRITAIN; WWI; CAIRO CONFERENCE; IRAQI ARMY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22 – 40

Contributors

author

Sorby Karol Jr.

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic