The British Empire employed a diverse range of strategies to
establish and then maintain control over its overseas territories
in the Middle East. This new interpretation of how Britain
maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its
defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its
withdrawal from the region in 1971 looks at how the British
government increasingly sought to achieve security with great
economy of force by building up local militaries instead of
deploying costly military forces from the home country. Benefitting
from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government
archival documents and India Office records, this highly original
narrative weighs the successes and failures of Britain's use of
'indirect rule' among the small states of Eastern Arabia, including
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the seven Trucial States and Oman. Drawing
important lessons for scholars and policymakers about the
limitations of trying to outsource security to local partners,
Security in the Gulf is a remarkable study of the deployment of
British colonial policy in the Middle East before 1971.
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