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international competition for petroleum reserves

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    In 20th-century international relations: U.S. leverage in world markets

    …private firms to form an American Group, led by Standard Oil of New Jersey, to seek a share of Mesopotamian oil reserves, while State Department expert Arthur Millspaugh outlined a plan for worldwide Anglo-American reciprocity. The British, fearing American retaliation and anxious to have help against native rebellions, granted the…

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