Jenin (Might Have Been)

At the start of the 1967 war the Jordanian army was deployed into a thin front line all along the border with Israel. Front line battalions regularly covered frontages of up to 10 km, normally a large brigade frontage, so …

S-5

At the start of the 1967 war the Jordanian army was deployed into a thin front line all along the border with Israel. Front line battalions regularly covered frontages of up to 10 km, normally a large brigade frontage, so the Jordanian army had to rely heavily on its few reserve brigades to move up and reinforce any threatened parts of this front line. During the war, however, the Israeli air force interdicted these reserves and prevented them from getting to the front. The Jordanian units stretched along the border, such as the gallant but doomed 25th Brigade were simply overwhelmed. To see the difference these reserve brigades would have made, replay Situation S-4, but add the units listed below to Jordanian Group 8. (Use Iraqi units to make up this additional brigade; specifically, it is assumed in this Situation that the Iraqi Tank Brigade has been able to cross the Jordan River onto the West Bank.).

Jenin, West Bank

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