...have fully understood him. "You never knew what was going on with Glubb," one of them later commented. "His mind had begun to work like an Arab's. He was all subtleties. He had the kind of lucid mind that could understand the illogic of the Arabs and anticipate it. He knew they would act...

...airbases. Glubb. as described by a British officer with the Arab Legion, was the consummate chameleon: "You never knew what was going on with Glubb . . ....work like an Arab's. He was all subtleties ... He dealt as an Arab with the King's palace, as a beduin with the tribes, as a British officer with London....

...officers remarked on how Glubb had been transformed inside the Orient into a sort of chameleon man: "You never knew what was going on with Glubb. His...understand the illogic of the Arabs and anticipate it. He knew they would act from their emotions, and he knew what those emotions were. He dealt as an Arab...