- Aaron Eitan Meyer
- June 18, 2018
- Paper No. 869
Orde Wingateโs approach to the liberation of Ethiopia from Italian occupation in 1941 provides a useful model for modern-day intervention in Syria. Rather than hand out money and materiel to local forces (ร la the British support of the anti-Ottoman โGreat Arab Revoltโ of WWI), Wingate advocated committing oneโs own forces and then allowing local forces to participate of their own accord. In Wingateโs view, loyalty bought with cash and weapons will always prove temporary.