This is the only current book on maritime Djibouti, and the only
one available in English since 1968. It describes the geography,
naval history, and present strategic role of this small country,
and indicates its possible future. Naval Strategy East of Suez
includes previously little-known facts of French covert action in
"Italian East Africa, 1938-1941"; and of "Operation Toreador
"(1956), which served to aid Operation Musketeer. It also turns a
spotlight on the Allied blockade of Djibouti in 1940-1942. In a
sense, this book is a more readable, and less technical, treatment
of what sailors call sailing directions.
Djibouti's naval base, 600 miles closer to the Strait of Hormuz
than Diego Garcia, is the nearest base to Middle East oil centers
likely to be available to France and its allies in the
future--facts often ignored or unknown to all but the most
specialized of specialists. Koburger believes that the troubles in
the Middle East are only beginning. His book offers a background
and strategy about an area little known to Anglophones that is of
considerable potential usefulness.
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