He was a key player in the <span>Sinai and Palestine Campaign
This was a campaign in the middle east in World War 1 against the Ottomans in which various Arab people united to rid themselves of Ottoman rule. He worked closely with Emir Faisal in that region and it culminated all in the capture of Damascus in 1918. After the war, he went back to Britain and worked in the foreign office. </span>
Explanation: because some countries sell a lot of their things to be able to pay for the wepons that the military needs. And alot of things gets destroyed because of war going on.