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Seventh: lessons and results — military level

Seventh: lessons and results — military level

Point 7 of 12 — Lesson 6: The Crossing Epic of the October 1973 War and the Recovery of National SovereigntyQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

07 Seventh: lessons and results — military level

  • The war was a unique event and a turning point in the Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel suffered a strategic surprise that cost its army and its intelligence service — one of the ablest in the world — its self-confidence.
  • The Egyptian forces undermined the foundations of Israel's combat doctrine and achieved mobility, manoeuvre and air superiority over the battlefield.
  • It proved that natural and artificial obstacles and strong fortifications cannot stop modern armies when resolve and will exist.
  • The balance of power in the Middle East was reversed; after 1967 Israel had relied on qualitative superiority and modern technology.
  • The Arab fighter proved competent to master and use modern complex weapons.
  • Egypt's air defence proved effective in limiting Israeli air superiority, and anti-aircraft missiles proved their importance.
  • Concentration of force was among the most important principles of war; the concentrated air strike unbalanced the enemy from the first moments.
  • Developing states without a war industry must hold an adequate stock of weapons, because great powers may control the decision to continue fighting.
  • The war ended the "no peace and no war" state and opened the door to a peace in the Middle East.

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