THE MIDDLE EAST

The Middle East

The Middle East

Introduction

The Middle East was no less affected by the conflict. After four centuries of relentless, broke the Ottoman Empire, creating a vacuum that tensions between locals and foreign powers or concerns helps. The "war to end all disputes" had not met their goal. Few events in world history have a deeper effect than the conflict around the world (1914-8) had. Although the German attempt to dominate Europe was thwarted in the end, the balance of the region was destroyed by the bitter struggle between the various elements.DiscussionSince November 1914, the Ottomans, the world's largest independent Islamic power, its ambivalent neutrality in the conduct of the parties in the conflict and became a belligerent in the confrontation with the Sultan to a claim Infantry Jihad (holy conflict) against France, Russia and United Kingdom. The Ottoman Empire had been humbled by recent setbacks in Libya and the Balkans. Involved in what could be started as a European conflict seem to outside observers, therefore, suicide have been, but the most important components in the government, the power and the German infantry affected developed and inspired by dreams of glory Imperial War as a growing openness to lost reclaim areas and take on new countries and nationalities in the Empire (Ephraim, 1999) welcomed.

The Ottoman / Turkish commando (about 600,000 army divided into 38 partitions) was a quality to be identified. But with Germany as a partner, the Ottoman Empire a serious threat to the British Empire included, so in a pre-emptive strike, London immediately an Anglo-Indian in Basra, near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris. This was done to the Anglo-Persian Oil Pipeline, which was of decisive importance for the British army and to protect the flag of the United Kingdom in this area of strategic importance in the Persian Gulf.

Within weeks, the central forces with a strike against the crash "jugular vein" of Great Britain, the Suez Canal. This increase to attempt to break in early February 1915 the British protection in the Suez Canal and an Islamic insurgency in Egypt, but failed and led to heavy losses for the attackers.Defeat at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia

Ready to hand over all emerging infantry in 1915 to the Western Front, where there was grave fighting, took the British command a naval attack against the Ottomans in Istanbul force from the war. In the Royal Navy in February and March is not in a position to fight their way through the Dardanelles to the Ottoman capital was put in big guns, infantry authorities hastily an expeditionary force on the Gallipoli peninsula country.

Objectives, as is the case in the Dardanelles or Gallipoli project had fake military considerations - the Anglo-Indian force does not hold the necessary resources and logistical support for Baghdad, although he was to capture an expert. Also had a strong British presence in Mesopotamia, not following the defeat of the first strategic competitor from Great Britain, Germany. But the government of India were concerned that a holy war ...