Footnote To Youth Chapter 7 Analysis
Lawrence begins chapter 108 with Nasir attacking railway stations to disrupted and kill the Turkish army by stopping travel and communications. After the attacks on Hesa and the other stations were complete Lawrence describes in great detail a painful punishment that one of the soldiers, Mustafa, had to endure. Men came by and picked long thorns off a bush and one by one stabbed their thorn in to Mustafa. Lawrence did not say what Mustafa did but he did show a very important part of the Arabs beliefs. This man laid down voluntarily and had dozens of thorns pushed in to his body without saying a word of rebuttal. This showed true discipline in their ranks. While Lawrence and the Arabs were able to disrupted and torment the Turks by capturing
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To help convince and trick the Turks into believing their slide of hade they would also create a demonstration in the Jordan Valley to help influence the Turks to concentrate their efforts in the Jordan Valley not in the olive groves where they actually are. Allenby would also place dummy camps, dummy horses, and dummy troops to help through off the Turks of the upcoming attack. To ensure the concealment of the newly places cavalry and infantry they would have their air force in the air in strength to prevent the Turks for getting any air reconnaissance on the Arabs while they were planning their attacks. After describing this in depth and intense plan Lawrence doesn’t really go over any contingency plans he might make. Earlier he said they must assume the attack will not go to plan, while it is great that he is not ignorant but he should try to cover any potential troubles they might have and pass it down to every solider. This is key in military leadership, every man must know the plan inside and out so no one is left in the dark when bullets start to fly. The plan that Lawrence laid out was designed for a light weight fast moving force such as the Arabs not for an army like the British who were powerful and slow. For the attack to work the British like the Arabs would have to fool the Turks, if unable they
To help convince and trick the Turks into believing their slide of hade they would also create a demonstration in the Jordan Valley to help influence the Turks to concentrate their efforts in the Jordan Valley not in the olive groves where they actually are. Allenby would also place dummy camps, dummy horses, and dummy troops to help through off the Turks of the upcoming attack. To ensure the concealment of the newly places cavalry and infantry they would have their air force in the air in strength to prevent the Turks for getting any air reconnaissance on the Arabs while they were planning their attacks. After describing this in depth and intense plan Lawrence doesn’t really go over any contingency plans he might make. Earlier he said they must assume the attack will not go to plan, while it is great that he is not ignorant but he should try to cover any potential troubles they might have and pass it down to every solider. This is key in military leadership, every man must know the plan inside and out so no one is left in the dark when bullets start to fly. The plan that Lawrence laid out was designed for a light weight fast moving force such as the Arabs not for an army like the British who were powerful and slow. For the attack to work the British like the Arabs would have to fool the Turks, if unable they