Inside Israel's Northern Command : The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border

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On October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian force of 1,400 tanks supported by artillery and air power had attacked from the north while the Egyptian military invaded the Sinai Peninsula in the south. Alt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Asher, Daniel, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Guerre israelo-arabe, 1973 > Syrie.
Israel-Arab War, 1973 > Syria.
Syria.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Preparation for war; Syria wants war
  • Kachol Lavan (blue and white) alert
  • Operational planning
  • Preparations: regular service forces-air force-armored corps
  • The final road to war
  • Part II: From desperate holding to an offensive towards Damascus; Halting the Syrian attack
  • The fall of the Hermon outpost
  • Defensive: the morning of October 7 to the morning of October 8
  • The attempt to capture the Hermon on October 8
  • The Syrian army: from penetration to the depths of the Golan Heights to the delay in the Eastern defensive alignments
  • The counterattack, October 8-10
  • The breakthrough into Syrian territory October 11-12
  • The breaktrhrough, the threat on Damascus, and the battles against the expeditionary forces
  • Operation Kinuach (dessert) recapturing the Hermon
  • Part III: Operating the command systems at war; The general staff branch
  • Intelligence
  • Artillery
  • Field engineering
  • Air force
  • Logistics
  • Ordnance
  • Medical corps
  • Military police
  • Adjutant branch
  • Signal control and communications
  • Quantitative summary of the war on the Northern front.

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