General conclusion

The dominant concern of British defence policy in the few years after the Great War was to reduce military expenditure while at the same time retaining control of the territories. Air power changed the military relationship between the Protectorate tribes and the Aden government, and set in train a process of growing mutual dependence which culminated in the emergence of an independent South Yemeni state. The air force was not the only element involved, but it would be reasonable to claim that the modern frontiers of South Yemen, Jordan and Iraq are in part a legacy of air policing. The air control scheme offered the British government the magical formula of continued control with reduced expenditure, and this unorthodox method offered one solution to a central dilemma of post-war imperialism. The survival of the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the 1920s had far reaching implications.

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