“From what the Oxford scholar [TE Lawrence] had seen, military culture was a world of hidebound careerists looking for a knighthood or their next medal, and of underlings loath to question the powerful, with countless thousands dying as a result.” BureaucracySelf ServingOutdatedSycophantCareerismUnimaginativeHideboundMuscleboundToadying Book:Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East