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Colonisation. Decolonisation --- International relations. Foreign policy --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Great Britain --- Libya --- Ethiopia --- Somalia --- United States of America

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World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Military intelligence --- Military intelligence --- Campaigns --- Bagnold, Ralph A. --- Zerzura Club.

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For centuries the world's Great Powers, along with their fleets, armies, and intelligence services, have been drawn to the Persian Gulf region. Lying at the junction of three great continents ? Asia, Europe, and Africa ? and sitting athwart the oceanic trade routes that link the cities of the world, the Gulf, like a magnet, has pulled superpowers into the shallow waters and adjacent lands of the 600 mile long appendage of the Indian Ocean. An observer at Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf would alternately have watched pass in the 15th century the treasure ships of Chinese Admiral Zheng He,

Great powers --- History. --- Persian Gulf Region --- Persian Gulf Region --- Persian Gulf Region --- Foreign relations. --- History. --- Strategic aspects.