The British Imperial Position in the Middle East

All the major European powers in first part of 20th century tried to deal with dependence on foreign oil. They all failed, Germany obviously went down a very catastrophic road under Nazis but British and French were not able to turn their empires into empires that could solve their energy problems. Britain though kind of hung on in there through the Second World War in the Middle East. It still had a position in the sense that the Anglo-Iranian oil company as it was, which was 50% plus or 51% owned by the British state,. The United States had no intention of using its military power in the post-war world to be the military guarantor of West European oil security in the Mide