ABSTRACT
The chronic tension surrounding Rabegh, Wingate’s campaign to bring in reinforcements and the intelligence community’s advocacy of a guerrilla strategy were set to collide. The risks posed by the insertion of foreign troops were still being debated, and the danger for the Arabs of a conventional attack from the Turks’ HEF, faced without military help, was another mystery. Wemyss had expressed his confidence to the government in the capacity of Imint and Sigint to give adequate warning of enemy movements against Rabegh, but the Flight was still being organized and Sigint successes depended upon the enemy’s communication procedure. Deeper in the field, the Arab armies lacked the targeted intelligence support that would have allowed them to verify single-source warnings of threat quickly, and unnecessary panics inevitably followed.
