الدور العماني في تعزيز الأخلاق بين التنظير والتطبيق

الدورُ العُماني في تعزيز الأخلاق بين التنظير والتطبيق

the British Army. His father ordered him back home in 1912 and kept him confined to his palace in Salalah. Qaboos was reportedly repulsed by the situation he saw upon his return، a fact he made sure to communicate to British diplomats and military officers when they were allowed to visit him.' Eventually، London decided to encourage Qaboos to oust his father، which he did on July

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19 V، at the age of 9. His father left for London and never returned.

When Sultan Qaboos took power، Oman started to undergo profound social، educational and military reforms. The country was largely isolated، shunning in particular its Arab neighbours and preferring to look to England and India for its international relations. Although Oman has often been described as a "tiny sultanate،" it is if fact larger than the UK or Italy in area. And yet، at that time، it had barely ???? km of paved roads، only two small hospitals for its population of one million، and two secular secondary schools—only for boys—all in the capital، Muscat.' It was poorer than Yemen، with electricity and running water only in the cities of Muscat and Salalah and the British RAF Salalah and Masirah bases.

To make matters worse، Oman faced a communist insurgency in the Dhofar region. Waged by the Dhofar Liberation Front، the insurgency had the goal of establishing a socialist state in Oman as a first step towards spreading the revolution into the Trucial Sheikhdoms (the seven sheikhdoms on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf: Abu Dhabi، Ajman، Dubai، Ras al-Khaima، Sharjah، Fujairah، and Umm al-Quwain، which eventually became the United Arab Emirates)، and extending it into Bahrain and Qatar. This would have established a ring of pro-Soviet states around the southern periphery of Saudi Arabia، threatening the world's

Nikolas Gardner، 'The Limits of the Sandhurst Connection: The Evolution of Oman's Foreign and Defense Policy 19.-19 VV'، Journal of the Middle East and Africa 1:1، 10، p.^.

Simon Anglim، op. cit.

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