Civil-military affairs in Hashemite Iraq: an examination of past miltiary conduct in Iraqi political life /
Youssef Aboul-Enien and Basil Aboul-Enien
- 2006
Iraq's Hashemite dynasty lasted from 1921 to 1958. The history of the relations between the military and the Hashemite rulers provides background to events in post-Saddam Iraq. The article also notes that modern Iraq was not an invention of the British but a much older construct realized under the Ottoman (Turkish) empire.