miles a day across the desert, even in
summer. They carried no more than a
pint of drinking water, since they were
so good at finding water in the desert.
“Our cards were speed and time, not
hitting power,” Lawrence wrote. “Our
largest available resources were the
tribesmen, men quite unused to formal
warfare, whose assets were movement,
endurance, individual intelligence,
knowledge of the country, courage.” The
eighteenth-century general Maurice de
Saxe famously said that the art of war
was about legs, not arms, and
Lawrence’s troops were all legs. In one
typical stretch in the spring of 1917, his
men dynamited sixty rails and cut a
darren dugan
(Darren Dugan)
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