THE EGYPTIAN/ISRAELI WAR 1973

Za Rodinu · #1 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2008, 07:00 PM

The Egyptian/Israeli War 1973

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The nature of warfare focuses on the objective and how to achieve this objective with a decisive victory. So, the view of the reader in this issue may be sometimes right yet sometimes wrong. The question what, why and how are we going to achieve the objective becomes the focus. In this paper I am going to write about the Arab-Israeli 1973 war, focusing on why this war takes place in this period and what happened in each extreme and how each of the extremes achieved his objective.[1]

In 1967, the Israeli factories and the occupied Arab territories were the two issues which led Arab countries should do something. A peace initiative, proposed by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, in December 1969, specified an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories in return for assurances of a binding peace commitment. It was rejected by the Israelis. However, President Sadat, the new Egyptian leader seemed to be trying the diplomacy approach by giving the Roger's Peace Plan a chance. At the same time, Egypt and Syria continued to obtain more weapons from the Soviet Union and to improve their armed forces. Launching a peace initiative of his own, Sadat announced on 5 February 1971 that, if the Israelis would make a partial withdrawal, the Egyptians would clean and reopen the Suez Canal. Unfortunately, this proposal came to nothing.

TA152 · #2 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2008, 08:24 PM

I was thinking about that war a few days ago. They make such a big deal about the unmanned flight vehicles of today, but in 1973 they were using them to get the Egyptians to fire their ground to air missles at drones instead of the Israeli A-4 Skyhawks. They made the drones so as to have the same radar return as a Skyhawk.

So the use of unmanned drones is at least 35 years old.

They also used them for gunnery practice in WWII. The Culver Company made a line of drones for the military.

Ceraphix · #3 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2008, 10:29 PM

A major war frequently overlooked...largest amphibious operation and tank battles since WWII...

Poppy · #4 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2008, 01:41 AM

Gee, what timing. Isn't Israel sabre rattling just now? Maybe this stuff contributes to 140$ barrel of oil....What are the odds of an attack (on Iran) before GB leaves office?

JCFalkenbergIII · #5 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2008, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Poppy

Gee, what timing. Isn't Israel sabre rattling just now? Maybe this stuff contributes to 140$ barrel of oil....What are the odds of an attack (on Iran) before GB leaves office?

And what does Iran,GWB, and Oil have to do with the 73 war? In the 73 war Israel was the one that was attacked by Egypt and Syria.Not the other way around. If you want take your comments to the Free Fire Zone.

JCFalkenbergIII · #6 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2008, 03:39 AM

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Albatross of Decisive Victory Dr.George W. Gawrych
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resour...ntent.asp#1973

Air Operations During The 1973 Arab-Israeli War And The Implications For Marine

Za Rodinu · #7 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2008, 07:12 PM

That first link did't work for me... here it is in another place

http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/show...ename=1565.pdf

Also

http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/show...ilename=86.pdf

http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/show...ename=1373.pdf

http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cgi-bin/show...ename=2033.pdf

Should keep anyone happy for a while, instead of trying to derail threads with non-apropos comments

JCFalkenbergIII · #8 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2008, 07:27 PM

Thanks for the update there Za. This is where I found it. I clicked on it and it worked fine

. The first link you gave above is a different publication it looks like.

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Albatross of Decisive Victory Dr.George W. Gawrych

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resour...ntent.asp#1973

ozjohn39 · #9 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2008, 12:54 AM

"THE EGYPTIAN/ISRAELI WAR 1973"

Help me out here, is that the one where all of Israel's peace-loving neighbours got together on Yom Kippur and attacked without provocation, in the hope of pushing the Israelis into the sea?

......and ended up getting "the mother of all hiding" in the process?

OJ

Slipdigit · #10 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2008, 02:08 AM

I think that is the one, John.