Военная история / Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz (Histoire & Collections)

Название: Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz (Histoire & Collections)
Автор: James Stejskal
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
Год: 2018
Страниц: 225
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 25 MB

Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors - this is unconventional warfare. T. E. Lawrence was one of the earliest practitioners of modern unconventional warfare. His tactics and strategies were used by men like Mao and Giap in their wars of liberation. Both kept Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom close at hand. This book looks at the creation of the HEDGEHOG force, the formation of armored car sections and other units, and focuses on the Hejaz Operations Staff, the Allied officers and men who took Lawrence's idea and prosecuted it against the Ottoman Turkish army assisting Field Marshal Allenby to achieve victory in 1918.