Good whatever time of the day you're having there, brothers and sisters.
Being a dedicated fan of the HoI since its first version, I've finally managed to get myself a not-localised version and try myself in the AArt of writing.
This AAR is going to take part in the Arab Federation, 1936-1964. The difficulty is set at hard, the enemies agressive. I'm using ARMA, of course. I've tried to stick only to using the real historical persons, however, added a few so that the AAR would seem more detailed and interesting.
PROLOGUE
The aftermath of the First World War gave birth to a relatively stable Middle East. The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Faisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization and Israel) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 governed Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. The victorious British, fearing an Arab uprising, decided not to meddle and let the two nations settle all the disputes on their own. The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 did not come in force.
After a few years of British overseeing, the Independent State of Israel and the Arab Federation were created in 1921. The Arab Federation was given lands from Hejaz to Syria and Iraq, and Israel received the borders slightly modified than those of the 1919 agreement – Golan Heights and the Sinai peninsula were included, due to the large number of Jewish settlers there.
Weizmann, to the left, and Faisal, to the right, signing the Agreement in 1919.
In 1923, the British gave the Egyptian monarchy of Fuad I full independence, and withdrew their military out of Egypt, staying only in Alexandria, where the Mediterranean Fleet was located, and the Suez Channel zone. The Egyptian regime soon proved to be weak and corrupt, as radical groups of military officers and business tried to grab political power.
The Arab Federation became a monarchy, with Faisal of the Hashemite Dynasty becoming its king and Baghdad its capital. However, in 1924, the rise of the region of Nejd in Arabia, led by Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, spread over to Hejaz and Oman, and Al-Saud managed to proclaim his own state there, calling it Saudi Arabia. The peace treaty signed between Faisal and Saud in 1925 set the borders between the Arab Federation and the Saudia, with the Holy Cities of Islam remaining in Faisal’s hands.
Coronation of Faisal as the King of Arab Federation, 1921.
Saudi Arabia, however, started engaging in border fights with the nearby Yemen, which evolved into a full scale combat by 1932. The King of Yemen, Yahya Muhammad, and his loyal army captured Jeddah and Riyadh, fully annexing the country and having Al-Saud executed by 1934.
This, of course, made a few people in Baghdad raise their eyebrows. The reputation of King Faisal wasn’t the cleanest one, as cooperation with the British during the Arab Revolt made him look like a traitor to the Islamic principles among the most conservative Islamists, while Yahya Muhammad was known to be a traditionalist and was even proposed as a khalifa by the Islamic scholar Mohammad Rashid Rida.
The political situation in the Arab Federation (I’ll use the abbreviation of the AF later on, and please excuse me for that) was far from stable. Growing popularity of Yemen as a new centre of the Arab world could cause separatism and animosity among the local authorities of the AF, as well as in the Holy Cities, the key to power in the region.
But the spring of ’36 became a little bit too hot.
Being a dedicated fan of the HoI since its first version, I've finally managed to get myself a not-localised version and try myself in the AArt of writing.
This AAR is going to take part in the Arab Federation, 1936-1964. The difficulty is set at hard, the enemies agressive. I'm using ARMA, of course. I've tried to stick only to using the real historical persons, however, added a few so that the AAR would seem more detailed and interesting.
PROLOGUE
The aftermath of the First World War gave birth to a relatively stable Middle East. The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Faisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization and Israel) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 governed Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. The victorious British, fearing an Arab uprising, decided not to meddle and let the two nations settle all the disputes on their own. The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 did not come in force.
After a few years of British overseeing, the Independent State of Israel and the Arab Federation were created in 1921. The Arab Federation was given lands from Hejaz to Syria and Iraq, and Israel received the borders slightly modified than those of the 1919 agreement – Golan Heights and the Sinai peninsula were included, due to the large number of Jewish settlers there.
Weizmann, to the left, and Faisal, to the right, signing the Agreement in 1919.
In 1923, the British gave the Egyptian monarchy of Fuad I full independence, and withdrew their military out of Egypt, staying only in Alexandria, where the Mediterranean Fleet was located, and the Suez Channel zone. The Egyptian regime soon proved to be weak and corrupt, as radical groups of military officers and business tried to grab political power.
The Arab Federation became a monarchy, with Faisal of the Hashemite Dynasty becoming its king and Baghdad its capital. However, in 1924, the rise of the region of Nejd in Arabia, led by Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, spread over to Hejaz and Oman, and Al-Saud managed to proclaim his own state there, calling it Saudi Arabia. The peace treaty signed between Faisal and Saud in 1925 set the borders between the Arab Federation and the Saudia, with the Holy Cities of Islam remaining in Faisal’s hands.
Coronation of Faisal as the King of Arab Federation, 1921.
Saudi Arabia, however, started engaging in border fights with the nearby Yemen, which evolved into a full scale combat by 1932. The King of Yemen, Yahya Muhammad, and his loyal army captured Jeddah and Riyadh, fully annexing the country and having Al-Saud executed by 1934.
This, of course, made a few people in Baghdad raise their eyebrows. The reputation of King Faisal wasn’t the cleanest one, as cooperation with the British during the Arab Revolt made him look like a traitor to the Islamic principles among the most conservative Islamists, while Yahya Muhammad was known to be a traditionalist and was even proposed as a khalifa by the Islamic scholar Mohammad Rashid Rida.
The political situation in the Arab Federation (I’ll use the abbreviation of the AF later on, and please excuse me for that) was far from stable. Growing popularity of Yemen as a new centre of the Arab world could cause separatism and animosity among the local authorities of the AF, as well as in the Holy Cities, the key to power in the region.
But the spring of ’36 became a little bit too hot.