Far from being seen as separate to the ‘Indo Pacific tilt’ in British foreign policy, the Middle East should be viewed as an opening to the East. As the physical gateway to the Indo Pacific, and the site of three critical waterways for global trade, the Middle East is geopolitically vital to any strategic desire to focus on the Far East. Mentioned a mere seven times in Britain’s 2023 Defence Command Paper, the Middle East must not be viewed as a low-priority region in western strategy, but as inherently connected to wider international security.
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