Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ndị Briten nwere ndị agha nọ n'Ijipt kemgbe afọ 1882 mana nke a belatara nke ukwuu site na nkwekọrịta nke Anglo-Egyptian nke 1936. Obere ndị agha Briten na ndị agha Commonwealth nọchiri Ọwara Suez na ụzọ Oké Osimiri Uhie. Ọwa mmiri ahụ dị oké mkpa iji mee ka ndị Briten na mba ndị dị n'Ime Ime Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Ụwa nakwa n'Oké Osimiri India nwee ike ikwurịta okwu. N'etiti afọ 1939, a họpụtara Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell ka ọ bụrụ General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) nke Ọchịchị Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Ọwụwa ọhụrụ, n'elu Mediterranean na Middle East. Ruo mgbe
N'ihi nkwekọrịta agha nke Franco-Axis, ndị agha France nọ na Tunisia chere ndị agha nke ise nke Italy ihu na mpaghara ọdịda anyanwụ nke Libya. Na Libya, ndị Royal Army nwere ihe dịka ndị agha 215,000 na Egypt, ndị Britain nwere ihe dịka ndị agha 36,000 na ndị ọzọ 27,500 na-azụ na Palestine.