Inside Israel's Northern Command : the Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border.
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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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
