BIBLICAL TECHNIQUE
It is reported that General Sir Archibald Percivnl Wavell, brilliantly successful commander of the Army of the Nile, used the Bible as a military handbook in his planning for the Libyan campaign. “ From Gideon, who fought on the scarred plain of Armageddon, he says he learned principles of night attack. On the use of mechanised equipment in the rainy season he took the warning of Elijah, ‘ Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.’ On the uselessness of hoping for Egyptian military assistance he heeded 2 Kings xviii. 21: ‘ Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, oven upon Egypt; on which if a man loan, it will go into his hand and pierce it.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 3
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125BIBLICAL TECHNIQUE Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 3
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