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Bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tact for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid program. build roads, build a school, build a mosque, build shops, a clinic. but it was in this way the sultan was able to demonstrate that he was the one who had his peoples best interest at heart, not the communists. >> anthony: things seldom work out so well. post insurgency or counterins...

For where it is, the strait of hormuz. the persian gulfs femoral artery, 20% of the worlds oil flows through here making it one of, if not the most strategically important waterways on the planet. by 1970 sultan taimoors counter insurgency was not going well. he was deposed by his son qaboos bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tact for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid...

Flows through here making it one of, if not the most strategically important waterways on the planet. by 1970 sultan taimoors counter insurgency was not going well. he was deposed by his son qaboos bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tact for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid program. build roads, build a school, build a mosque, build shops, a clinic. but it was in thi...

By 1970 sultan taimoors counter insurgency was not going well. he was deposed by his son qaboos bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tact for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid program. build roads, build a school, build a mosque, build shops, a clinic. but it was in this way the sultan was able to demonstrate that he was the one who had his peoples best interest at hear...

By 1970 sultan taimoors counter insurgency was not going well. he was deposed by his son qaboos bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tack for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid program. build roads, build a school, build a mosque, build shops, a clinic. but it was in this way the sultan was able to demonstrate that he was the one who had his peoples best interest at hear...

Artery, 20% of the worlds oil flows through here making it one of, if not the most strategically important waterways on the planet. by 1970 sultan taimoors counter insurgency was not going well. he was deposed by his son qaboos bin said al said, in a relatively bloodless coup. immediately, the young sultan set out on a different tact for winning the war. >> ian: almost before the shooting had stopped, we would institute a civil aid program. build roads, build a school, build a mosque, build shop...

Time warp. the thing that changed it, was the advent of a japanese transistor radio. for the first time his people could hear what other arab countries were doing with their oil, and they wanted some of that. >> anthony: by the 1920s winston churchill switched the royal navys mode of power from coal to oil. and suddenly, everything changed. they needed oil, and lots of it. which made oman vital not for its limited oil resources, but for where it is, the strait of hormuz. the persian gulfs femora...