Lawrence and the Arabs

The motivation of the arab forces occupied much of lawrence's time as an adviser. He concluded somewhat romantically, we were a self centred army without parade or gesture devoted to freedom. Lawrence wrote that allenby had ordered the arabs to move against derar, but there were insufficient forces available in time to meet his dead line. The truth was he cared nothing for our fighting power and did not reckon us part of his tactical strength. Our purpose to him was moral, psychological diathetic, to keep the enemy command intent upon the trans jordan front. In my english capacity, i shared this view. But on my arab side, both agitation and battle seemed equally important