The extension of air control

The policing role of most political moment carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1920s was to maintain the power of the Arab kingdoms in Transjordan and Iraq. From 1919 to 1921 the British Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary waged an often bitter and sometimes brutal war against nationalist guerrillas in Ireland. The conflict aroused passionate feeling in Great Britain; when it became clear that neither military nor political means could defeat the rebellion, an armistice was agreed in 1921. The scheme for air control was premised upon a more or less stable international environment. The establishment of air control in Palestine, unlike in Iraq, provoked no lengthy political controversy. British policy-makers proved more willing to adopt a strategy of air policing in Palestine than in Ireland, a difference which is better explained by their racial attitudes than by their political wisdom.

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