The Prime Minister and the Prophet
The Irregular Alliance of Churchill and Wingate
TL;DR:
The relationship between Winston Churchill and Major General Orde Wingate was a profound exercise in Strategic Heresy, where the Prime Minister empowered a "madman" to bypass the inertia of the British military establishment. To Churchill, Wingate represented the raw "offensive spirit" required to reclaim the initiative in the Far East; to Wingate…
