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Title
El Firdan (might Have Been)
Description
After the fighting started on October 6. Israeli commanders transferred mobilizing reserve forces to the front line as quickly as possible. Limitations on mobilization capability and road capacity permitted only the most crucial units to be moved to the front. This meant that armored units were formed at the front with only tanks, the supporting armor infantry and artillery to follow later. If the counterattack had been delayed until these supporting units appeared, a disastrous deleat might have been averted.
Subject
Publisher
Scenario#
S-10
Scenario Description
After the fighting started on October 6. Israeli commanders transferred mobilizing reserve forces to the front line as quickly as possible. Limitations on mobilization capability and road capacity permitted only the most crucial units to be moved to the front. This meant that armored units were formed at the front with only tanks, the supporting armor infantry and artillery to follow later. If the counterattack had been delayed until these supporting units appeared, a disastrous defeat might have been averted.
Location
El Firdan, Egypt
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. The war took place mostly in Sinai and the Golan, occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel. Egypt's initial war objective was to use its military to seize a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal and use this to negotiate the return of the rest of Sinai.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Yom Kipper War
Combatants
Egyptian
Israeli