Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War

by Mohs; Paula

• ISBN13: 9780415493314
• ISBN10: 0415493315
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Foreword
Map	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vi
List of abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Legacies of the First World War	p. 3
Intelligence: suspended potential	p. 7
Progress to the east	p. 10
The Arab Bureau and British policy	p. 14
Setting the scene: British intelligence and anArab insurrection, 1913G++15	p. 27
British Egypt: redefining strategic security	p. 28
Schemes for subversion: Arab opportunities and British ambivalence	p. 36
Political negotiations	p. 55
The Foreign Office and the Sykes-Picot agreement	p. 66
The creation of the Arab Bureau	p. 74
The outbreak of the Arab Revolt, MayG++November 1916	p. 108
The Sherif of Mecca launches uprising	p. 108
Complications for British support	p. 116
Debating control of the Hejaz campaign	p. 122
The Hejaz uprising: a precedent for Syria?	p. 133
Arriving at a doctrine of guerrilla warfare, JuneG++October 1916	p. 160
The Arab Bureau and evaluations of the Arab forces	p. 160
Divided Islam and a military stalemate	p. 169
Crisis at Rabegh: debate over an immobile brigade	p. 176
A G++corner turnedG++ for the Arab Revolt, and McMahon	p. 187
LawrenceG++s mission: advancing a strategy of guerrilla warfare	p. 200
Intelligence on trial: the Rabegh crisis, November 1916G++January 1917	p. 241
First alarm at Rabegh: intelligence wanted	p. 241
The military debate over reinforcements	p. 249
Intelligence and the strategic detachment from Medina	p. 258
The shield of Rabegh collapses: the Turkishcounter-attack, December 1916	p. 266
Intelligence and the gainsaying of Wingate	p. 278
Reorientation: the Arab Revolt shifts north, JanuaryG++April 1917	p. 314
Wejh: filling the strategy vacuum	p. 314
Regular support for an irregular campaign	p. 335
Imint and Turkish redeployment to the railway	p. 344
Tribal politics and a northern migration	p. 351
Sigint and a vanished option	p. 357
An unauthorized policy triumph: intelligence and Aqaba,FebruaryG++July 1917	p. 383
Destination: Medina, Jauf or Aqaba?	p. 383
LawrenceG++s epiphany on Medina	p. 395
Another G++revoltG++: the Sykes-Picot stratagem stumbles	p. 413
Intelligence assessments: Medina fades to Syria	p. 424
The best laid plans: political and military intelligence on Aqaba	p. 435
Aftermath: intelligence revelations	p. 448
Conclusion	p. 458
Theatre challenges	p. 461
Regional expertise: the Arab Bureau	p. 464
Lessons: the Lawrence conundrum	p. 470
Glossary of names	p. 478
Bibliography	p. 489
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