How to best Balkanize Iraq

Roll Jordan roll
Iraq and Jordan were dynastically connected. In the middle fifties Jordan had an alliance with Iraq Suppose Jordan reasserts itself and claims the Sunni area of Iraq

The Sunni area of Iraq has been fanatized big time in recient decades, these people also know war in a way the the vast majority of Jordanians couldn't comprehend. They would own Jordan very quickly in such a merger. The same for the Saudis. Paper divisions vs. a population skilled at conventional, assymetic and terrorist warfare.

It's no small feat to try to take over the region again and again and it's taken a fair bit of megalomania.
 
Last edited:
The Sunni area of Iraq has been fanatized big time in recient decades, these people also know war in a way the the vast majority of Jordanians couldn't comprehend. They would own Jordan very quickly in such a merger. The same for the Saudis. Paper divisions vs. a population skilled at conventional, assymetic and terrorist warfare.

It's no small feat to try to take over the region again and again and it's taken a fair bit of megalomania.

We don't know the POD though. Considering Iran is a U.S. ally its likely this war takes place before 1980.
 
If the POD is far back enough, you can use the Ottoman-era vilayet boundaries. The old vilayets were centred around Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul, respectively, with a little bit from the Aleppo vilayet (IIRC).

Not sure if those borders would have been any better. They were not really homogenous either.
 
Top