British Policy in the Arabic Gulf Region | ||
| Alustath | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 200, September 2012, Pages 1045-1068 | ||
| Author | ||
| FARIS IBRAHEM AL-KATIB | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research is a review or a demonstration for the primary British military invasion in the Arabic gulf region specially after the reduce of the Dutch control in that remarkable important trading region, so there was no doubt that a foreign force shall be arose in that region to take the Dutch position which was in control for more than a century, so the French arouses with their napoleons imperial point of view and the British with their remarkable economist strategic horizon to struggle and fight each other for a piece of the gulf region with all its bounties. Both of them (the French and the British) was doing their best to enter that vital region according to two mechanisms: the first one is to use their military forces and the second is to compromise politically or financially with the leaders of the Arab In the first chapter of this research we showed the primary stages of the British invasion in the Arabic gulf and their struggle against the French Armada to force their military presence within that region. In the second chapter we had studied the nature of the British invasion of Persia taking advantage of the financial and political Conditions at that important era. The third chapter sought in the British invasion of Iraq especially the vital port of al-basrah then the gradual approaching Baghdad The center of Ottoman government in Iraq back then. The Researcher- FarisIbrahem Al-katib Master researchs in Modern History Epilogue: In the current research we can summarize the most important historical and political landmarks into: 1.the Arab gulf region with all its nature resources and the strategic geographic position make it in the sight of multiple imperial nations those as a pray for their greedy nature those struggled and fight to poses it’s bounties and take advantage of its strategic position and fortunes for centuries, that’s the fact that demonstrate the competition of among those nations to invade it along the time. 2.in the spotlight of what been demonstrated and reviewed of the historical facts in the theme of this research we can clearly see that the British political mind is the most successful one in reading the political area with high level of efficiency according to long ranges of planning time tables, they are the most successful of all to achieve and accomplish all their goals no matter how much time it may takes like the English saying “it’s better late than never) that fact demonstrate for us how the British took advantage of the political and commercial gap left the Dutch in the region which was the secret of their success to achieve their hard political goals in spite of the presence of the Ottoman giant and how they use their keen political sense to achieve those goals and. 3. The successes of the diplomatic corps in dealing with the region public especially the Arabic tribes with the successful politician proficiency and the real investor, they gave them the liberty to choose and practice their religion and tribe leadership, their focus was on the political and financial factors. 4.The management was very skillful when it comes to choose their intelligence agents and politicians those been sent to the Arabic region that is the secret of their set of fast and followed up political and financial successes of the British government in the Arabic gulf region in spite of all the imperial competitors in that vital region. 5. The British management was depending in its political work on the intelligence logistic and high level of information gathered from all the countries they intend to deal with, they were sending multiple kinds of specialists in all professions like doctors or relics experts to gather to collect as much as possible of needed information about those countries or people, that has remarkable importance to ease the mission of the British government in one hand and to put the successful solutions to deal with the people of those countries on the other. | ||
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