Author: Tore T. Petersen
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1836242085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
When the British Labour party announced the withdrawal of British forces from the Persian Gulf in January 1968, the United States faced a potential power vacuum in the area. The incoming Nixon administration, preoccupied with the Soviet Union and China, and the war in Vietnam, had no intention of replacing the British in the Gulf.