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Book Synopsis Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt by : Polly A. Mohs
Download or read book Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt written by Polly A. Mohs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence officer and guerrilla leader. Modern intelligence techniques such as Sigint, Imint and Humint were incorporated into strategic planning with greater expertise and consistency in Arabia than in any other theatre during the war, and their deployment as tactical support for the Arab forces was decisive. Using much previously unpublished material, this study shows conclusively how Britain’s intelligence community in Arabia influenced the conduct of the Arab campaign, promoted a full-scale guerrilla war and thereby facilitated the Arab armies’ march north into Syria, Palestine and the modern Middle East. Polly A. Mohs contributes to the unveiling of another hidden corner of the history of the Middle East and to a better understanding of the significance of intelligence in formulating strategic processes in the modern era. Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, military history, Middle East history, British imperial history, guerrilla warfare and insurgency.
Book Synopsis The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence by : Ephraim Kahana
Download or read book The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence written by Ephraim Kahana and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry, proportionately larger and more extensive than in most other regions. The A to Z of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as the biographies of key players, this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.
Download or read book Arab Bureau written by Bruce C. Westrate and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918 by : Yigal Sheffy
Download or read book British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918 written by Yigal Sheffy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development and efficacy of Brtish military intelligence in the campaign against the Ottoman empire in Egypt and Palestine during the war.
Book Synopsis The Secret War for the Middle East by : Youssef Aboul-Enein
Download or read book The Secret War for the Middle East written by Youssef Aboul-Enein and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be argued that the Middle East during the World War II has been regarded as that conflict’s most overlooked theater of operations. Though the threat of direct Axis invasion never materialized beyond the Egyptian Western Desert with Rommel’s Afrika Korps, this did not limit the Axis from probing the Middle East and cultivating potential collaborators and sympathizers. These actions left an indelible mark in the socio-political evolution of the modern states of the Middle East. This book explores the infusion of the political language of anti-Semitism, nationalism, fascism, and Marxism that were among the ideological byproducts of Axis and Allied intervention in the Arab world. The status of British-dominated Middle East was tailor-made for exploitation by Axis intelligence and propaganda. German and Italian intelligence efforts fueled anti-British resentments; their influence shaped the course of Arab nationalist sentiments throughout the Middle East. A relevant parallel to the pan-Arab cause was Hitler’s attempt to bring ethnic Germans into the fold of a greater German state. In theory, as the Sudeten German stood on par with the Carpathian German, so too, according to doctrinal theory, did the Yemeni stand in union with the Syrian in the imagination of those espousing pan-Arabism. As historic evidence demonstrates, this very commonality proved to be a major factor in the development of relations between Arab and Fascist leaders. The Arab nationalist movement amounted to nothing more than a shapeless, fragmented, counter position to British imperialism, imported to the Arab East via Berlin for Nazi aspirations.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence by : Ephraim Kahana
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence written by Ephraim Kahana and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry, proportionately larger and more extensive than in most other regions. The Historical Dictionary of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as the biographies of key players, this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.
Book Synopsis Behind the Lawrence Legend by : Philip Walker
Download or read book Behind the Lawrence Legend written by Philip Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as 'Lawrence of Arabia', after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, would have been impossible without the unsung efforts of a forgotten band of fellow officers and spies. This groundbreaking account by Philip Walker interweaves the compelling stories of Colonel Cyril Wilson and a colourful supporting cast with the narrative of Lawrence and the desert campaign. These men's lost tales provide a remarkable and fresh perspective on Lawrence and the Arab Revolt. While Lawrence and others blew up trains in the desert, Wilson and his men carried out their shadowy intelligence and diplomatic work. His deputies rooted out anti-British jihadists who were trying to sabotage the revolt. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Lionel Gray, a cipher officer, provided a gateway into unknown aspects of the revolt through his previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness writings. Wilson's crucial influence underpinned all these missions and steadied the revolt on a number of occasions when it could have collapsed. Without Wilson and his circle there would have been no 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Yet Wilson's band mostly fell through the cracks of history into obscurity. "Behind the Lawrence Legend" reveals their vital impact and puts Lawrence's efforts into context, thus helping to set the record straight for one of the most beguiling and iconic characters of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Lawrence of Arabia's Secret Dispatches During the Arab Revolt, 1915–1919 by : T.E. Lawrence
Download or read book Lawrence of Arabia's Secret Dispatches During the Arab Revolt, 1915–1919 written by T.E. Lawrence and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. E. Lawrence’s dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are published in full for the first time. They give us a direct inside view of his dealings with the Arab leaders and show us how he presented them to his superiors in Cairo. These wartime writings reveal vividly his impressions of the periods he spent in the desert and the conditions he found there, and they record how the Arab uprising developed and how he became increasingly involved in it. They make fascinating reading for, in his sometimes outspoken way, he reported on the military potential of the Arab fighters and recommended how they should be supported in their struggle against the Ottoman empire. This new collection of his dispatches is a valuable addition to the literature on Lawrence for it allows readers to trace the course of the revolt as he wrote about it at the time. They are printed in chronological order with full explanatory notes. The editor Fabrizio Bagatti provides a perceptive introduction which sets them in their wartime context, fills in the military and political background to the strategic situation in the Middle East and describes Lawrence’s important role as an intermediary between the Arabs and the British.
Book Synopsis Guerrilla Leader by : James Schneider
Download or read book Guerrilla Leader written by James Schneider and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader’s critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. Just how did this obscure British junior intelligence officer, unschooled in the art of war, become “Lawrence of Arabia” and inspire a loosely affiliated cluster of desert tribes to band together in an all-or-nothing insurgency against their Turkish overlords? The answers have profound implications for our time as well, as a new generation of revolutionaries pulls pages from Lawrence’s playbook of irregular warfare. Blowing up trains and harassing supply lines with dynamite and audacity, Lawrence drove the mighty armies of the Ottoman Turks to distraction and brought the Arabs to the brink of self-determination. But his success hinged on more than just innovative tactics: As he immersed himself in Arab culture, Lawrence learned that a traditional Western-style hierarchical command structure could not work in a tribal system where warriors lead not only an army but an entire community. Weaving quotations from Lawrence’s own writings with the histories of his greatest campaigns, Schneider shows how this stranger in a strange land evolved over time into the model of the self-reflective, enabling leader who eschews glory for himself but instead seeks to empower his followers. Guerrilla Leader also offers a valuable analysis of Lawrence’s innovative theories of insurgency and their relevance to the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. This exhaustively researched book also provides a detailed account of the Arab revolt, from the stunning assault on the port city of Aqaba to the bloody, Pyrrhic victory at Tafileh, the only set-piece battle Lawrence fought during the Great Arab Revolt. Lawrence emerged from the latter experience physically and mentally drained, incapable of continuing as a military commander, and, Schneider asserts, in the early stages of the post-traumatic stress disorder that would bedevil him for the rest of his life. The author then carries the narrative forward to the final slaughter of the Turks at Tafas and the Arabs’ ultimate victory at Damascus. With insights into Lawrence’s views on discipline, his fear of failure, and his enduring influence on military leadership in the twenty-first century, Guerrilla Leader is a bracingly fresh take on one of the great subjects of the modern era. Foreward by Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks
Book Synopsis The Illicit Adventure by : Harry Victor Frederick Winstone
Download or read book The Illicit Adventure written by Harry Victor Frederick Winstone and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1982 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masters of Mayhem by : James Stejskal
Download or read book Masters of Mayhem written by James Stejskal and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight . . . a new perspective on the well-trodden story of the Arab Revolt” (Military History Matters on its Book of the Year, Silver Award–winner). Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning, and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors—this is unconventional warfare. T. E. Lawrence was one of the earliest practitioners of modern unconventional warfare. His tactics and strategies were used by men like Mao and Giap in their wars of liberation. Both kept Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom close at hand. This book examines the creation of the “Hedgehog” force, looks at the formation of armored car sections and other units, and focuses on the Hejaz Operations Staff, the Allied officers and men who took Lawrence’s idea and prosecuted it against the Ottoman Turkish army, assisting Field Marshal Allenby to achieve victory in 1918. Stejskal concludes with an examination of how Hedgehog influenced special operations and unconventional warfare, including Field Marshal Wavell, the Long Range Desert Group, and David Stirling’s SAS. “Makes a convincing case that the roots of modern special operations, particularly effective guerrilla warfare, are to be found in British participation in the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule during WWI.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Britain's Pacification of Palestine by : Matthew Hughes
Download or read book Britain's Pacification of Palestine written by Matthew Hughes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army's devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
Download or read book Abu Djaj written by John L Segal and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian of Israel's intelligence services, has described Yoseph Davidescu as 'the number one intelligence agent in the history of Israel before independence'. Davidescu had multiple personas. He was a winegrower and farmer. He was a volunteer soldier in the Turkish Army facing the British. He was a Jewish intelligence agent working for the British against the Turks. He circulated in Arab society as Abu Djaj, an Arabic name for a poultry trader. He attended mosque disguised as a Muslim Arab and attended Muslim festivals in the tents of Bedouin sheikhs, accepted as a son of their tribes. He was decorated by King George V and admired by Winston Churchill. He was imprisoned in Lebanon by the French for gun-running for the Jewish militia. Davidescu was the most important and effective intelligence agent for the British and for all the Jewish militias and Jewish leadership in British Mandate Palestine across the political spectrum - from the left-leaning mainstream Jewish militia, the Haganah, to the right-wing Jewish militants. In the Great Arab Revolt in Palestine during 1936-1939 Davidescu was hunted by Arab rebels, but ironically it was Jewish militants who later sentenced him to death and killed him. It is the author's aim to present the full story of the life of one of the key personalities in the history of the Middle East, whose time spans the period from the late Nineteenth Century until the end of the Second World War. It is a life which made one of the greatest contributions to the development and security of the Yishuv, the modern Jewish project in Palestine. This book aims to redress an imbalance in existing reporting about Davidescu, which mostly concerns his assassination. Davidescu's story offers insights not only into the Yishuv, but through his unique intelligence, into the Arab communities in Palestine and its neighbours, and into Turkish, then British, rule. It also provides insights into French rule in Syria and Lebanon, where Davidescu ran a network of agents and informants. It puts into context today's territorial, political and security competition between Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab nationalism. The book documents the history of the period in Palestine and its neighbours through the medium of Davidescu's first hand experiences, observations and analysis, often in his own words. Volume 1 covers Yoseph Davidescu's activities and the Palestine story under the Ottoman Turks and the early years British rule, until Davidescu's second recruitment into British Intelligence and the early period of the Great Arab Revolt.
Book Synopsis Lawrence and Aaronsohn by : Ronald Florence
Download or read book Lawrence and Aaronsohn written by Ronald Florence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a second lieutenant from Oxfordshire and a Jewish agronomist from Palestine mapped the land and conflicts of the modern Middle East. Historian Florence provides new perspectives on the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the turmoil of World WarI
Book Synopsis Lawrence of Arabia's War by : Neil Faulkner
Download or read book Lawrence of Arabia's War written by Neil Faulkner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts. Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, Faulkner sheds new light on British intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence and his legendary military campaigns. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, rising Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. Faulkner arrives at a provocative new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare. This analysis leads him to reassesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria—and thus the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.
Book Synopsis The Arab Revolts by : David McMurray
Download or read book The Arab Revolts written by David McMurray and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be tolerated. These essays from Middle East Report—the leading source of timely reporting and insightful analysis of the region—cover events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. Written for a broad audience of students, policymakers, media analysts, and general readers, the collection reveals the underlying causes of the revolts by identifying key trends during the last two decades leading up to the recent insurrections.
Download or read book Abu Djaj written by John L. Segal and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian of Israel's intelligence services, has described Yoseph Davidescu as 'the number one intelligence agent in the history of Israel before independence'. Davidescu had multiple personas. He was a winegrower and farmer. He was a volunteer soldier in the Turkish Army facing the British. He was a Jewish intelligence agent working for the British against the Turks. He circulated in Arab society as Abu Djaj, an Arabic name for a poultry trader. He attended mosque disguised as a Muslim Arab and attended Muslim festivals in the tents of Bedouin sheikhs, accepted as a son of their tribes. He was decorated by King George V and admired by Winston Churchill. He was imprisoned in Lebanon by the French for gun-running for the Jewish militia. Davidescu was the most important and effective intelligence agent for the British and for all the Jewish militias and Jewish leadership in British Mandate Palestine across the political spectrum - from the left-leaning mainstream Jewish militia, the Haganah, to the right-wing Jewish militants. In the Great Arab Revolt in Palestine during 1936-1939 Davidescu was hunted by Arab rebels, but ironically it was Jewish militants who later sentenced him to death and killed him. It is the author's aim to present the full story of the life of one of the key personalities in the history of the Middle East, whose time spans the period from the late Nineteenth Century until the end of the Second World War. It is a life which made one of the greatest contributions to the development and security of the Yishuv, the modern Jewish project in Palestine. This book aims to redress an imbalance in existing reporting about Davidescu, which mostly concerns his assassination. Davidescu's story offers insights not only into the Yishuv, but through his unique intelligence, into the Arab communities in Palestine and its neighbours, and into Turkish, then British, rule. It also provides insights into French rule in Syria and Lebanon, where Davidescu ran a network of agents and informants. It puts into context today's territorial, political and security competition between Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab nationalism. The book documents the history of the period in Palestine and its neighbours through the medium of Davidescu's first hand experiences, observations and analysis, often in his own words. Volume 2 covers Yoseph Davidescu's activities and the Palestine story under British rule, during the later stages of the Great Arab Revolt and the Second World War. Davidescu is also witness to events in the French protectorates of Syria and Lebanon. The book ends with explaining Davidescu's assassination and considering his legacy.
