A good new book on Lawrence of Arabia
James Schneider of the School of Advanced Military Studies at Ft. Leavenworth has written a really interesting book on Lawrence of Arabia titled Guerrilla Leader. I liked it to much I wrote a foreword for it. I actually did the writing while I was in Berkeley, California, last spring, which seemed an appropriate location to ...
James Schneider of the School of Advanced Military Studies at Ft. Leavenworth has written a really interesting book on Lawrence of Arabia titled Guerrilla Leader. I liked it to much I wrote a foreword for it. I actually did the writing while I was in Berkeley, California, last spring, which seemed an appropriate location to meditate on loony old T.E.
James Schneider of the School of Advanced Military Studies at Ft. Leavenworth has written a really interesting book on Lawrence of Arabia titled Guerrilla Leader. I liked it to much I wrote a foreword for it. I actually did the writing while I was in Berkeley, California, last spring, which seemed an appropriate location to meditate on loony old T.E.
Basically, Schneider looks at Lawrence as the guy who figured out how to wage guerrilla war in the industrial age. He also has the insight that the very thing that make Lawrence capable of doing what he did was his great empathy-and that is also what made him vulnerable, leaving him a cracked and empty man at age 31.
It’s a good read. More to come soon in Military Review.
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