Yesterday's Witness S14 E06 Keeping Peace in the Desert

One of Britain's most urgent problems when given a mandate to administer the new kingdom of Iraq after the Great War, was to protect the shepherd tribes, who lived on the southern frontier, from raiding parties of camel tribesmen from neighbouring Saudi Arabia. To do so she employed the planes of the newly formed Royal Air Force in the air, working with a handful of Army liaison officers on the ground, one of whom was John Bagot Glubb, later to become the legendary Glubb Pasha of the Arab Legion. Now, over 50 years later, Sir John Glubb recalls his part in keeping peace in the desert.