Ian Rutledge

Ian Rutledge is author of Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914–1921 (Saqi books, 2014). He is research director of Sheffield Energy Resources Information Services (SERIS), and has taught at the Universities of London and Sheffield and for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). His publications include Addicted to Oil: America's Relentless Drive for Energy Security (IB Tauris, 2006)

The Great War and Iraq: Britain’s poisonous legacy

The little-known involvement of British imperial forces in creating and controlling the state of Iraq in the wake of the first world war is a key source of the country's later disasters, says Ian Rutledge.

By Ian Rutledge

/ 17 May 2014