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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.

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'Failing to learn historical lessons is not new.　 As Louise Kettle demonstrates in this absorbing account history is full of enough tantalising clues about the future that government should take heed, but it rarely has in the past and probably won’t in the future.　 As Kettle ably shows, this is a serious mistake and until someone sits up and takes notice, the mistakes of the past will become the mistakes of the future.' - Michael Goodman, King's College London

Table of Contents
1. Learning from History; 2. No End of a Lesson – Suez 1956; 3. More like Korea – Jordan 1958; 4. Suez in Reverse – Kuwait 1961; 5. A Re-Run of Port Stanley – The Gulf 1990–1; 6. Afghanistan Part Two – Iraq 2003–9; 7. Failing History or Lessons Learned?; Notes; Index.

Learning from the History of British

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 30/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9781474437950, 978-1474437950
      ISBN10: 1474437958
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      Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      'Failing to learn historical lessons is not new.　 As Louise Kettle demonstrates in this absorbing account history is full of enough tantalising clues about the future that government should take heed, but it rarely has in the past and probably won’t in the future.　 As Kettle ably shows, this is a serious mistake and until someone sits up and takes notice, the mistakes of the past will become the mistakes of the future.' - Michael Goodman, King's College London

      Table of Contents
      1. Learning from History; 2. No End of a Lesson – Suez 1956; 3. More like Korea – Jordan 1958; 4. Suez in Reverse – Kuwait 1961; 5. A Re-Run of Port Stanley – The Gulf 1990–1; 6. Afghanistan Part Two – Iraq 2003–9; 7. Failing History or Lessons Learned?; Notes; Index.

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