Summary The British Anti-Locust Campaign in the Arabian Peninsula 1942-45 The British army's Middle-East Anti-locust Unit (MEALU) Today we look at the previously little-known, large scale 1943-1944 anti-locust campaign in the Arabian Peninsula. The threat of locusts impacting local food crops in the middle east, might have lead to valuable shipping space being used to import food. So a special British Army unit was created, and tasked with waging war on locust. Dr. Athol Yates is Assistant Professor at Institute for International and Civil Security, at the Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. He has recently published the paper The British Military and the Anti-Locust Campaign across the Arab Peninsula including the Emirates, 1942-45. He teaches on civil security, security technology, internal security, disaster management, public policy and research methods.

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