Lawrence and the Arab Revolutionary Forces

Lawrence elided over the shortcomings of arab irregular fighters. In doing so he romanticized all revolutionaries, ignoring their violence and brutality. This was especially true when it came to the psychological motivation of his guorillas. Lawrence could not see that the local ship was using him for its own ends. Far from being a nationalist struggle for the sake of arabism, this was a bid for dynastic security by sherif hussein of mecca.