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Masters of Mayhem - Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz (Hardcover)
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Masters of Mayhem - Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz (Hardcover)
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Second place in the Military History Monthly Book of the Year Award
2018 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
and 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 armoured car sections and other units, and focuses 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.
Stejskal concludes with an examination of how HEDGEHOG has
influenced special operations and unconventional warfare, including
Field Marshal Wavell, the Long Range Desert Group, and David
Stirling's SAS.
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