Where others were distracted by wea

Where others were distracted by weaknesses, Lawrence respected the Bedouin character and strategy in warfare. And the Arab tribes proved capable of conducting larger scale operations augmented by regular troops, foreign advisors, sufficient war material and foodstuff, and money.By its nature, irregular warfare has its advantages against conventional forces. As noted by Lawrence in perhaps his most famous dictum, “to make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”23 In developing his own theory of irregular warfare, Lawrence identified three key elements for analysis: the algebraic, the biological, and the psychological for analyzing messy rebellions.24 In understanding the interplay of these three elements, he was able to