Simpliciusnak megjelent az új írása melyben az Army War College jelentését elemzi.
A few weeks ago the U.S. Army War College released a paper which was an urgent call for the U.S. armed forces to adapt to the modern style of warfare being innovated in the Ukrainian conflict. The paper made the rounds due to some startling admissions, which we’ll get to. But what’s most...
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Ebben nem is annyira az elemzés a jó, mert az mindig remek, hanem ahogy pl. az arab-izraeli háborúkat is megemlíti benne. Viszont, nem is ebben van a lényeg. Hanem egy kommentben, melyet egy olyan kommentelő írt (
kilonovembertango), aki a háború kitörése napján megfigyelő volt a hamarosan 50. évfordulójához érő Jom Kippur háborúban, és pont ott volt Szueznél, amikor az egész buli elindult 50 évvel ezelőtt ...
"Without going into too many details, I was an observer on the Suez Canal, when at 14:05 hours on the 6th of October, 1973, all hell broke loose.
Overhead, very fast, low flying Egyptian Mirage, Mig and sukhoi jets crossed the Canal into occupied Sinai. Egyptian artillery opened up all along the Canal. Then what seemed to be tens of pontoons began deploying with hundreds of dinghies loaded with Egyptian regular army padeling towards the eastern shore while israeli mortar shells looked for victims. The sound of artillery, mortars and small arms fire combined into what seemed like a symphony of death. It was known that the Israelis had built a system which once activated would pump Napalm into the Canal and once ignited could devastate any force crossing the Canal. The Egyptians must have sabotaged the system because it failed to deploy.
The Egyptian commandos were first to reach the lightly maned Bar Lev Line because of the Yum Kipur holiday. They slugged it up the sand burm carrying machine guns and disappeared below the crest. Following them were the engineers building the floating bridges. The first to cross over the bridges were trucks with water jet pumps, and once they reached the other side, they began to wash the sand creating gabs in the sand barrier. On their heels were the Egyptian tanks pouring into the Israeli defenses.
I started noticing Egyptian flags replacing Israeli flags all along the Canal. By eight pm the Egyptian Army radio declared that the Egyptian Army has total control of the Bar Lev line and up to two miles into the Sinai.
When the night depended, the sky was lit with SAM6s finding their marks over the Sinai. Not one Israeli fighter plane managed to cross the Canal which was under a SAM6 air degense umbrella.
A few days later, I was informed that on that first night the Egyptian infantry armed with portable Malyutka (AT-3 Sagger) wire-guided anti-tank missiles fought the Israelis all night and managed to destroy over 230 Israeli tanks. The losses sobered Israel up from its perceived invincibility.
It is interesting to note that on the eleventh day of the war, Moshe Dayan appeared on French TV sending "Israel's S.O.S. to the world. We are running out of ammunition." This is when NATO sent everything it had to Israel, forcing Nato's American Commander to resign in protest.
War is a hell of a thing, it is only about death and dying. I was grateful I wasn't a partcipant."
