'Israeli forces concentrated on the border with Egypt included 3 divisions, which consisted of 9 brigades, of which 5 were armored; there were also three reserve brigades. The Egyptian forces consisted of 7 divisions, five of them infantry and two armored. Four infantry divisions were near the Egyptian-Israeli border in the Sinai, an infantry and an armored division in central Sinai, and a second armored division in the west. In addition, a reinforced brigade (with 200 tanks) under Colonel Shazly was deployed in the southern Sinai with orders to encircle Eilat in the case of war.
Overall, Egypt had over 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks in the Sinai, backed by appropriate artillery. This arrangement was based on the Soviet doctrine, where mobile armor units at strategic depth provide a dynamic defense while infantry units engage in defensive battles.'
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Can you imagine the logistics of supplying eight times such a force, the most part of a million men, with water alone, in the Sinai desert? ... not too likely for a not-so-rich country like Egypt, eh .... ah, but history is written by the victors, as they say
Note that the 1967 conflict was fought entirely on arab muslim land, and not at all on the six point something per cent of Palestine legitimately acquired by zionists pre-1948 ..... this was also true of the 1956 conflict, the 1973 conflict, and almost entirely the case in the 1948 war |
