Word: iraqization
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Pincers Turned. But it was the soft southern belly of the Axis that had suddenly become vulnerable. Bombed and frightened Italy might be more of a liability than a help to Hitler. Turkey, Syria, Iraq-the whole Middle East-were no longer an open road for the German armies. The Nazis might be pulling back in the Caucasus, building up their stores in the Balkans for a sudden blow through Turkey-but the British also had strengthened their forces in the Middle East, and the Germans no longer had the lower blade of their pincers in Egypt. The Allied occupation...
...prospect of an oil shortage is based on a possibility, a probability and a fact. The possibility is that Hitler may take the Iraq-Caucasian-Iranian oilfields, leaving the United Nations totally dependent on the Western Hemisphere for oil. The probability is that gasoline and fuel oil rationing will be more than offset by a huge rise in military oil consumption-as new armadas of U.S. planes take to the sky, as new armies of U.S. tanks take to the field, as the second-ocean Navy and the seven-seas merchant marine take to the water. The fact is that...
...Army under General Alexander now holds the Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...
Turkey is the imponderable X in all the Allied calculations for the Middle East. The Russian and British armies in Persia, Iraq and Syria hold guns at Turkey's back-friendly guns, aimed not at the Turks but at the Germans. Turkey's bouncing Premier Sükr ü Saracoglu and the Turkish army's tough, cagey old Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak have no choice but to play with the winning side...
...armies on the bridge are greater in numbers than in actual fighting strength. According to a report from Istanbul last week, General Wilson has some 150,000 troops in Iraq and Persia. The Fighting French and thousands of Poles reinforce the Ninth Army in Syria and Palestine. But the Poles lack equipment; the Eighth Army in Egypt has necessarily had the first call on weapons, and this priority has probably affected the other British forces in the Middle East. So has Russia's urgent need; the U.S. and British supplies pouring through Iraq and Persia to the Caspian have...