In
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author
Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine "bore striking similarities" to a 1903
British declaration, in which British
Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would "regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal."
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