Theoretical Exploration of Lawrence of Arabia's Inner Meanings on Guerrilla Warfare

摘要

Lawrence's conception of the Arab East may not have come to what he envisaged, with Sykes-Picot looming in the foreground as he describes 'we lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.' His achievements and contributions as a modern guerrilla leader and political strategist of the emerging nations indelibly assured his place, perhaps not alongside Clausewitz, Jomini, or Mahan, but certainly in the annals of insurrectionary warfare. This warfare was to exemplify future desert guerrilla war such as the Libyan resistance movement of Omar Mukhtar or the Polisario incursions of Western Sahara. As this British warrior poet eloquently dreamt 'the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible...This I did...I meant to make a new nation..'.