RAF IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

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Three mercator navigation charts of the Middle East. A collection of charts covering the Arabian Peninsula, stretching to encompass North Africa, India, and the Maldives. The isogonals are correct to 1963. We have traced only three institutions that hold maps from this GSGS 4930 series: the British library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Australia.In the 1950s and 60s the RAF was heavily involved in supporting UK interests in the Middle East. In particular, they defended the UK's protectorates and allies in southern Yemen by airlifting ground troops into insurgent-controlled areas. "The most prominent COIN [counter-insurgency] operation of the mid-1950s took place in Western Aden, after continuing low-level unrest in the remote Wadi Hatib area persuaded the government to establish a new fort at Robat. The fort, together with a number of other isolated military outposts, subsequently came under attack from two dissident tribes, who received backing from Yemen. The British were obliged to airlift troops from Aden Colony into the affected area, and this relief operation was soon followed by the application of more forceful air control measures - warnings followed by the bombing of rebel villages, crops and water supplies. These operations were sustained throughout the second half of 1954, but there was no obvious reduction of insurgent activity" (Ritchie, p. 61). These activities would grow in frequency and scale during the 1960s with the Aden Emer

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