{"id":8832,"date":"2015-10-16T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T21:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2015-10-16T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T21:42:45","slug":"history-of-guerilla-warfare-how-would-lawrence-of-arabia-defeat-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/16\/history-of-guerilla-warfare-how-would-lawrence-of-arabia-defeat-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Guerilla Warfare: How Would Lawrence of Arabia Defeat ISIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/isis1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8833\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/isis1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"A Turkish fighter of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front, bearing the flag of Al-Qaeda on his jacket (C-back), holds position with fellow comrades on April 4, 2013 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo. AFP PHOTO \/ GUILLAUME BRIQUET (Photo credit should read Guillaume Briquet\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"620\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Lessons from the Early 20th century for the Chaotic, Modern Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>By James Stavridis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Colleague of mine recently watched the Oscar-winning classic 1962 film <em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em>. His brief comment on its merits in regard to understanding the Middle East of today: a cynical shrug of his shoulders and the words \u201cnothing has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, in the aggregate, a great deal has changed since the early 20th century, something of which he is actually quite aware. But there is a central grain of truth in his comment, which is that we could profitably spend some time looking at the life and times of Thomas Edward Lawrence, otherwise known to posterity as \u201cLawrence of Arabia.\u201d From his story emerges some potentially helpful insights that could inform our badly constructed policy, such as it is, toward the region generally and Syria in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence was born in Victorian England, and his parents moved to Oxford when he was a child. He intensely studied the Arab world there from 1907 to 1910, taking first-class honors in archaeology. He spent time excavating and traveling through the Near East in the run-up to World War I. In the months before the war\u2019s outbreak, he surveyed the Negev Desert (strategically important, as an Ottoman army would have to cross it to attack British Egypt).<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/10\/15\/how-would-lawrence-of-arabia-defeat-the-islamic-state\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from the Early 20th century for the Chaotic, Modern Middle East By James Stavridis A Colleague of mine recently watched the Oscar-winning classic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. His brief comment on its merits in regard to understanding the Middle East of today: a cynical shrug of his shoulders and the words \u201cnothing has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,1583,1704,74,1286,2470,17,272,1898],"tags":[2569,2570,1779,259,1083,2571],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}