Using his military proficiency, Lawrence of Arabia bolstered the Allied Powers by executing guerilla warfare tactics against the Ottoman Empire during the capture of Damascus. Notably, during the final stages of the Arab Revolt, Lawrence’s role in guerilla methods grew substantially. “[Lawrence] has expounded clearly in writings the now familiar principle that success in guerilla warfare can be had by a small number of active, committed rebels in an otherwise passive but supportive population. In the Hijaz, Transjordan, and Syria, the various tribes brought psychologically into sympathy with the aims of the Revolt, would form a ladder to Damascus” (Mack 150). Lawrence rationalized that the Hejaz railway was the greatest means of weakening and