Middle East Command, later Middle East Land Forces, was a British Army Command established prior to the Second World War in Egypt. Its primary role was...
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Middle East Command was a command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) that was active during the Second World War. It had been preceded by RAF Middle East, which...
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namely the area between the Near East and the Far East. In the late 1930s, the British established the Middle East Command, which was based in Cairo, for...
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as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it...
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British Forces Aden (redirect from Middle East Command (Aden))
was renamed Near East Command. On 1 March 1961 British Forces Arabian Peninsula was renamed, again, this time as Middle East Command (Aden). The senior...
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the Army Council and thereafter it became the responsibility of Middle East Command. It was disbanded on 11 December 1963, the day before Kenya became...
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modern conflicts in the Middle East ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined...
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Turkey, Great Britain and the Far East. During World War II, as Air Officer Commanding of the RAF Middle East Command, Tedder directed RAF air operations...
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(2008–2011) Malaya Command HQ Malta and Libya (until at least 1967) Mediterranean Command (1907–1914) Middle East Command (1939–1945) Middle East Land Forces...
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against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom...
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