1915 UK committee wrote paper advocating for break up of Ottoman Empire and creation of
Iraq to control its oil and agriculture Cabinet didn’t agree
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi came into office promising to make two major changes to Iraq. The first was to disarm the pro-Iran Resistance and the second was to take on corruption within the state. The premier took a major step towards the latter in a wave of arrests across Baghdad on June 28.
1915 US consulate report on anti-Turk riot in Karbala
1914 Ottomans agreed to oil concessions for British and Germans in Mosul and Baghdad
provinces Never happened because WWI
1916 UK report on defeat at Kut published Led to Secretary of State for India Chamberlain to resign
Said campaign bad from the start because under split control of London and Delhi Blamed Political officer Cox for pushing taking Baghdad which led to expansion of original mission to protect Persian Gulf and oil fields in Persia Was lack of transportation troops and supplies India didn’t adequately fund war Blamed India for mismanagement
(Musings On Iraq review Desert Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia)
George Tenet was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Clinton and Bush. He eventually resigned because of the controversy over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. His book At The Center of the Storm is very interesting because it shows that he was very sensitive about his time at the Agency with several chapters responding to criticisms of his tenure.
1922 Commerce Min Timman resigned over proposed Anglo-Iraq Treaty King Faisal ordered PM
Gaylani not to accept resignation
An economic advisor to Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said that the government was considering a 100 day emergency economic plan to cover spending and the budget until oil exports could return to pre-war levels.
1915 British troops took Nasiriya Ottomans had 200 casualties British 500
1923 Protests against voting on Anglo-Iraq treaty in Karbala
clergy as preparation to be crowned king Clerics opposed him
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1915 British troops began attack upon Nasiriya
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1831 Ottoman governor of Aleppo entered Baghdad under orders of Sultan Mahmoud
Brought province under direct control of Empire again removing Mamluks
Looking at The Iraq War, A History from Beginning to End one would think it was for children’s because it is only about half the size of a regular book. That would be a mistake. While it is printed on small paper and is very short at less than 100 pages it turns out to be a thorough review of the Iraq War from the Clinton to the Biden administrations with some good analysis.
870 Abbasid Caliph Muhtadi killed in capital Samarra in revolt by Turkish soldiers over not being
paid
(Musings On Iraq review when baghdad ruled the muslim world, the rise and fall of islam’s greatest dynasty)
1914 Germany and Britain asked Ottomans for oil concessions in Mosul and Baghdad provinces
1932 Assyrian religious leader Mar Shimun presented petition to League of Nations Mandate
Commission demanding autonomy for his people
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
In 2002 I started researching why the United States was going to invade Iraq. I began writing articles on a message board which eventually led me to start Musings On Iraq in 2008. Even though Iraq is not in the headlines anymore I continue to read 25 newspapers a day, maintain a timeline on Iraqi History and have reviewed over 440 books about the country. I’d like to thank the people that have helped me along the way and all the readers who continue to visit my blog every day.
1919 British force defeated Sheikh Barzinji near Chamchamal at Bazyan Pass Rebellion put down
(Musings On Iraq Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Teen Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter)
1920 UK govt decided to cancel proposed UK run provisional govt in Iraq for an Arab govt under
British influence
1920 War Min Churchill wrote UK Cabinet that he was ready to give up Mosul province to save
costs
(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1920 UK military governor in Basra reported political agitation from Baghdad trying to raise
support for Iraqi independence in Basra
1920 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that British army overextended in Mesopotamia
and asked whether UK should give up Mosul province because of costs
(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
Until the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 Moscow was Iraq’s biggest supporter. Those ties were developed under the Bakr government and the Soviet Union in the late-1960s. Oles and Bettie Smolanky’s The USSR And Iraq, The Soviet Quest For Influence studies this relationship from the 1950s to the end of the Iran-Iraq War. They refute the common Cold War belief that the Soviets created clientist states like Iraq. Instead the two had common interests that created an alliance between them. The Smolankys argue that Baghdad was able to follow its own national interests without threatening that relationship.
1920 Protest in Karbala mosque calling for revolt vs British
(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
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On June 10 the Joint Operations Command announced it was beginning the process of integrating the Imam Ali Brigade into the Iraqi forces. This was the third armed group to do so after Moqtada al-Sadr’s Saraya al-Salam and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq.
1925 Head of League of Nations Mosul Commission called King Faisal a “poor creature”
1915 US consulate report Ottomans might have lost control of Najaf and Karbala and UK
money behind it
1920 British forces retook Tal Afar after bombing broke Iraqi rebels British carried out collective
punishment destroying and looting homes Large number of people forced out into desert
In April Iraq was hoping that it could begin shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz again. That collapsed in May and so did its exports.
1920 Ex-Ottoman officer nationalist al-Ahd member future PM Jamil al-Midfai’s forces attacked
Mosul but turned back Tried to start revolt vs UK Mandate in Iraq
1920 Ex-Ottoman officer nationalist future PM al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s forces reached
Mosul hoping to start revolt against British
1919 Iraq High Commissioner Wilson told to take over Kurdish affairs Meant Kurds in Mosul to be
included in Iraq
The Conflict In Iraq is an anthology with chapters by various authors connected to the Center for Defense Studies at King’s College London. Like any collection some of the chapters are quite good and others are not. The fact that the book was put together very early in the U.S. occupation of Iraq also makes some of the readings outdated. Still there are some important insights provided such as comparisons between the British and Americans times in Iraq, the war planning, and United Nations weapons inspections.
1916 Ali and Faisal sons of Sharif Hussein announced Arab Revolt against Ottomans Many
Iraqi Ottoman officers would join revolt UK promised Sharif empire after war
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1923 1 st Parliamentary elections resumed after protests by Shiite clergy led to delay Assembly wouldn’t meet until M...
