Preparations For Northern Palestine Campaign
About the middle of July it became obvious that the Germans' attack on the Western Front had failed, and the opposing sides had returned to a continuation of trench warfare that had dominated fighting on that front for nearly four years and it seemed that the war would carry over into 1919. At this time the British Prime Minister Mr. Lloyd George revived his idea of borrowing divisions from the Western Front for a winter campaign in Palestine and restoring them in time for a spring campaign in France. It quickly became apparent that there would not be sufficient time to realise this project and Allenby was left to do the best he could with what he already had.
During the spring attacks along the front line Allenby had manoeuvred the Ottoman forces into a disposition favourable to his intentions and during the summer, while completing the reorganisation and training of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and improving the capacity of its lines of communication, Allenby kept the focus on the Jordan Valley and on the eastern flank.
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