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Reconstructing a Shattered Egyptian Army (1967 to 1971) : War Minister Gen. Mohamad Fawzi's Memoirs, 1967?1971.

Central to CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein's career has been the mission to introduce America's military leaders to Arabic works of military significance. Just like American military leaders who had an obsession for all things Russian during the Cold War in order to understand the Soviets, the war...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aboul-Enein, Youssef H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Naval Institute Press, 2014.
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  • Table of Contents; List of Maps ; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Deep Structural Problems Leading to the 1967 Six-Day War Defeat; 2. The Impact of the Yemen Guerilla War on Egyptian Military Thinking ; 3. Mistakes Made in the Preparation of Egyptian Combat Formations for the 1967 Six-Day War ; 4. The Collapse of the Egyptian Armed Forces: The 1967 Six-Day War ; 5. Challenges to Civil Authority ; 6. Starting from Zero: The Initial Plans and Strategy to Rebuild the Egyptian Armed Forces after the Six-Day War.
  • 7. Plan Granite: Creating a Strategy Centered on the Suez Canal Zone and the Sinai Peninsula 8. Formulating a GEneral Strategy for the War of Attrition ; 9. Redesigning the Egyptian Armed Forces ; 10. Overhauling th Egyptian Armed Forces: Strategy, Unity of Command, Civil-Military Authority, Drill, and the Need for Statutory Legislation ; 11. Psychological Recovery, Artillery, Special Forces, and Respect for the Adversary ; 12. Nasser's Conferences with His General Staff; 13. Egypt's Air Defense Problem and Egyptian Naval Capabilities; 14. Egyptian Special Forces Operations.
  • 15. Translating Soviet Military Aid into Egyptian Strategic Options 16. Concluding Thoughts: Educating America's Future Military Leaders on Arab Strategic Thinking ; Appendix 1: Recommended Reading ; Appendix 2: Egyptian General Saad el-Din el-Shazly: Controversial Operational Thinker and Architect of the 1973 Yom Kippur War ; Appendix 3: Egyptian General Abdel-Moneim Riad: The Creation of an Adaptive Military Thinker; Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author.