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    THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

    Apr 02, 2019 3 minutes

    BLOOD, OIL AND THE AXIS

    The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

    By John Broich. 368 pp. Abrams Press, 2019. $35.

    IT’S DIFFICULT TO READ this fascinating account of the Allies’ 1941 campaign in Iraq without being reminded of a remark made by Donald Rumsfeld in late 2004, nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion of that country. “You go to war with the army you have… not the

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