Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Doctrinal Background
- 2 Wingate before Palestine, 1923–36
- 3 Wingate and Counterterrorism in Palestine, 1937–9
- 4 Wingate in Ethiopia, 1940–1
- 5 Wingate in Burma (1) – the Origins of the Chindits, 1942–3
- 6 Wingate in Burma (2) – Operations Longcloth and Thursday, and the Subsequent Development of Long Range Penetration
- 7 The ‘Wingate Myth’ Reassessed
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
2 - Wingate before Palestine, 1923–36
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Doctrinal Background
- 2 Wingate before Palestine, 1923–36
- 3 Wingate and Counterterrorism in Palestine, 1937–9
- 4 Wingate in Ethiopia, 1940–1
- 5 Wingate in Burma (1) – the Origins of the Chindits, 1942–3
- 6 Wingate in Burma (2) – Operations Longcloth and Thursday, and the Subsequent Development of Long Range Penetration
- 7 The ‘Wingate Myth’ Reassessed
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
[P]ossession of the interior lines gives a priceless advantage to the possessor… [and] although it may be possible to derive special advantages from exterior lines … he who deliberately divides his forces in order unnecessarily to assume them is a pedant with little knowledge of war.
Lieutenant Orde Wingate,[C]olumns achieve their results by skilful concentration at the right time and in the right place, where they will deliver the maximum blow against the enemy. The essence of LRP is concentration, the method of dispersal is only a means to achieve ultimate concentration.
Brigadier Orde Wingate,Introduction
This chapter covers the period from Wingate's gazetting as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1923 to his arrival in Palestine in 1936. The key episode in this period appears to be the four years he spent on attachment to the Sudan Defence Force, 1928–33, which may have exerted more influence upon his subsequent military ideas than appreciated previously. Moreover, it was during this period that Wingate first encountered the ideas of his distant relative, T. E. Lawrence, which exerted a powerful influence upon his own – in some cases, through determination to demonstrate that he and Lawrence were not alike.
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- Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922–1944 , pp. 41 - 56Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014