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Naval Strategy East of Suez: The Role of Djibouti | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles W. Koburger
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $103.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 635313
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0275941167
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.03096771
EAN: 9780275941161
ASIN: 0275941167
Publication Date: March 30, 1992
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Product Description
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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History Oriented? Yes. Tourism? NON! June 9, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is quite expensive and was, in fact my first on line purchase. Having been to the country, for a day, I wanted to know more - much more. This book filled the bill for that. It is full of valuable history. I now understand why the country is what it is. It is a country to visit during the morning and get out of - it is culture SHOCK! - but I understand it much better now. A travelogue it is not, but if you're going there, it will give you an understanding of it's strategic importance, and why the French Foregin Legion is still there, to this day.I liked the book and would buy it again, If I knew all it contained. It contains a lot of history, from the military point of view.
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