Timeline for How did Israel win the Six-Day War?
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| Jul 2, 2014 at 23:15 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | The (possibly apocryphal) tale I heard about the 1967 Air War is that the Egyptian Air Force, knowing all about Surprise Attack at Dawn, always sortied in force an hour before dawn and then landed en masse for breakfast. Guess when the Israeli's attacked? Flying in from the West at tree-top height didn't hurt either. | |
| Apr 7, 2013 at 15:35 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | Sources for the first two paragraphs? | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 7:06 | comment | added | jwenting | The Egyptians were massively overconfident that their new Soviet supplied radar and SAM sites would be as if not more effective against the Israeli as had been the same equipment in Vietnam against the US. What they failed to realise was that in Vietnam that equipment was manned by highly trained Soviet "advisers" and the US hampered by restrictive ROE, while in Egypt and Syria it was manned by poorly trained Arabs and the Israeli had no restrictions on attacking anything of military value. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 0:09 | comment | added | Steven Drennon | I'm sure that the Egyptians and the Syrians were under the impression that the Israelis were getting the same political pressure and as a result wouldn't attack. From what I remember of that period, I also don't think the Egyptians or Syrians had much respect for or fear of the Israeli military at that time. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 21:39 | comment | added | user4951 | You mean a military general in Egypt could not think of a possibility that their jets will be bombarded while in the ground? | |
| Apr 10, 2012 at 22:33 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | I remember hearing an audio recording of LBJ saying that he told the PM of Israel that it was the opinion of his military staff that the arabs would not attack, and if they did, Israel would "whup" them. This could have been revisionisim on his part, but if so he still only got one half right.. | |
| Oct 16, 2011 at 3:29 | history | answered | Steven Drennon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |