T. E. Lawrence could still achieve distinction elsewhere if the Ottoman campaign disappeared from this scenario. His experience of guerrilla warfare in Arabia would nevertheless be lost. That experience helped shape commando operations and raids during the Second World War, as well as ways of working with partisans. Removing the Arabian campaign would therefore change military practices whose influence outlasted the First World War.
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Lawrence's Arabian experience and later irregular warfare
Removing the Arabian campaign would also remove guerrilla-warfare experience that influenced later commando raids and cooperation with partisans.