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Chronology of 1973 Yom Kippur WarIraqis staged a few large scale military exercises to lull Israel IDF army into high alert emergency status only to draw back at the crucial moment when the IDF was in full defensive positions with the deception of covering the battle alertness of the Israelite army into complacency with constant false war alarms as Israel was aware of the weapons buildup by the Arab armies.
The Arab armies had been stockpiling military arms cache as early as November 1972 with Soviet weapons which enabled their forces to break any Israeli tank counter offensives where one in every 3 Egyptian soldier would be armed with the portable Sagger anti-tank missile weapon.
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Other military hardware supplied with Russian technology included SAM's air to air missile batteries to incapacitate any air support of the Israel Air Force that proved to be the mitigating factor in wars won by Israel. While the Arabs were stockpiling military arms, they warned western countries against supplying Israel militarily which in turn will invoke the embargo of oil trade supply to their countries that would severely affect everything about their country.
With the alienation of Israel without any external assistance of military arms, Israel had to only rely on weapons on hand. The day on Yom Kippur was chosen as the military assault as it is the only time that Israel was totally defenseless and vulnerable when most military positions would be barely manned with a minimum force as the majority would take time off to observe their most religious duties on that day.
(Added on 17-10-2007)
On 6th October 1973 Syria codename Operation Badr or Operation Moon, where Syrian troops crossed the Bar Lev line as the opening of the offensive military assault against Israel where 486 Israeli soldiers at the Suez Canal defenses would face the onslaught of an amassed troop of 80,000 Egyptian soldiers. Where else at Golan Heights a total of 180 Israeli tanks would be up against 1,400 Syrian tanks with Libyan and Jordanian troops that has crossed over marking the assault of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
(2 paragraphs inserted on 11:55pm 18-10-2007)
(18-10-2007 Reinserted paragraph on 19-10-2007 after verifying archives. Reason why is that, this paragraph has waged much personal contentions with the author for about a month as inserting this paragraph would destroy the creditabiliy of the author. After many inserting and removal of this paragraph, I analysed this paragraph of Lieutanant Zvika Greengold with other documents and rechecked several encyclopedias to ensure the accuracy of the 1973 Yom Kippur War as some of the encyclopedias have the contention article but most none. After much meditation and searching, in the end, I wrote and rewrote this paragraph many times for a week in accordance with my ancestral duties regarding the history of Israel to minimise 'Santa Claus' type of stories as I hate false articles.)
At the Golan Heights battle by the Syrian tanks, Lieutanant Zvika Greengold arrived in a single tank to aid the Israeli tank units in defensive positions with his experience in tank warfare until Israeli reinforcement arrived. Lieutanant Zvika became known as 'Zvika Force' symbol due to the fact that during the battle of Golan Heights, Lieutanant Zvika was seen fighting in a defensive unit or in a tank for 20 hours, changing tanks a dozen times everytime his tank was destroyed as reported on Israeli military radio before it was over run by the massive Syrian army. Where Zvika Greengold became a national symbol of the IDF to press on and fight till the last drop of blood falls.......
(Note that tank shells used, contains a minimal amount of explosives designed to knock out a tank in earlier times)
Right picture of retreating young Israeli recruits from their defensive positions that was overruned by Syrian army.
It must be noted that a day on wards after the incursions of enemy forces into the territory of Israel, the IDF launched a few counter attacks ordered by Shmuel Gonen commander of the Israeli Southern Front to gain back the lost grounds only to be beaten back by a superior and morally prepared enemy force where they over ran the whole Golan Heights. With SAM air to air missiles, the Syrian was able to incapacitate the Israeli air strike with the shooting of 6 aircrafts while the rest retreated.
After a full day of defensive fighting, Ariel Sharon with the Israel reserve force was only then able to claim back some lost territory that has resulted from the failed counter attacks. On the 7th of October 1973 Ariel Sharon was fully recalled as Major General to lead the IDF 143rd division army.
Picture of 1973 Yom Kippur where Ariel Sharon together with Israel's reserve troop that weakened a support bridge to colapse under the weight of crossing Syrian tanks which led to a delay in Syrian tanks.Shmuel Gonen was considered to be out of depth at the time as Shmuel is mostly actively involved in the commercial sector and not militarily motivated, was replaced by General Chaim Bar Lev who was recalled from retirement from his government post of Minister of Trade and Industry on 14th of October 1973 at the personal request of Golda Meir.
At the early stages of war, armed with Russian technological military superior weapons, most Israeli defense positions were overruned into defeat. Any tank reinforcement was obliterated under the firepower of Russian technologically superior weapons, the Sagger anti-tank portable missile during the conflict.
Counterattacks and defensive maneuver of the Israeli army was pushed back by the Arab offensives where even 18 meter high barricades built by the Israelis with dessert bricks was blasted away, not by explosives devised by Egyptian engineers but by high pressured water canons loaded from the Suez Canal which was not weighted by the Israelis due to the dry condition of the dessert.
In the next few days, the Israeli army regrouped with many Israelite weapons falling into enemy hands and on October 9th 1973, the USSR president Leonid Brezhnev ordered the airlifting of an additional 8,000 tons of arms to cement the victory over Israel.
(added on 18-10-2007)
Right picture of Op-for.com showing an American C-5 Galaxy unloading M-60 tank at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel during 1973 Yom Kippur War
Seeing that the security interest of the U.S. is being threatened should the oil fields be forcefully taken over by the Arabs with the oversupply of Russian military influence in the mid-east, on 12th of October U.S. president Nixon ordered 22,000 tons of military supplies to be airlifted to Israel. After the stockpiling of the neccessary military supplies, on October the 14th 1973 Operation Nikel Grass was launched to rearm the Israelite troops in a covert military operation that turned Israel around in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
On the same day on 14th October when the Israeli army obtained the on-going military resupplies, right away a few generals strengthened the Israeli positions by launching a few 
counter offensives in the Golan Heights against the invaders and by late afternoon of 15th October 1973, 250 Syrian tanks was smoldering in smoke, destroyed by the Israeli counter offensives led by General Ariel Sharon.
Left picture of General Ariel Sharon mapping out counter offensive strategies to retake the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War
(Added 19-10-2007)
Immediately after the offensive at the Golan Heights, Major General Ariel Sharon without wasting any time to rearm military but continued to proceed attack a defense line to exploit the weak portion of Egyptian line dug in at north of Bitter Lake in the vicinity of Ismailiya which was inhabited with fierce soldiers which is the scene of some of the most bitter fighting in the Yom Kippur War. The offensive took place at the Chinese Farm (an irrigation project North East of the Suez Canal crossing point) which was to establish an anticipated bridgehead 30kms inland, about less than a 100 kilometers from Cairo, so as to prepare a temporary pontoon bridge to ferry military arms across.
October of 16th 1973, the much expected military convoy with the needed military supplies to replenish the IDF division arrived. Together with the military hardware was the M72 LAW anti-tank rockets to counter the tank offensives of the T62 Syrian russian tanks with a continued offensive to press back the Syrian forces out Golan Heights and back to their homeland.
(Added on 22-10-2007) (Edited/Added 4 paragraphs on 27-10-2007)
General Ariel Sharon further violated the orders issued by Southern Command to secure the bridgehead but instead advanced south of the canal crossing to cut off the supply lines of Egyptian 3rd Army in a devised military tactical manouver proving to be the triumph card in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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With the Israeli put on the offensive, General Ariel Sharon continued to lead his 143rd division deeper inland into Syrian territory with the intention of meeting an Israeli amored division on the road to Damascus.
Left picture of Israeli IDF that took in Egyptian prisoners in the 1973 Yom Kippur War under the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war.With the combined divisions of General Ariel Sharon and Colonel Abraham Adan (Bren Adan), they crossed the bridge into African territory within 101 kilometers of Cairo. There they encroached further south to wreak havoc to the supply chains of the Egyptian 3rd Army that was the core supply for enemy forces in the 1973 Yom Kippur War with a 100-150 tanks destroyed. But because of conflicting views of military manouvers, Colonel Bren Adan saperated from the 143rd division under General Ariel Sharon and proceeded north where a chance encounter with General Megan led to a different military offensive.
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With the destruction of a supply chain, they then proceeded south to round more supply chains, cutting off and encircling the 3rd Army, but before they could complete their military manouvers, the enemy tacticians knowing that the complete annihilation of this supply route would meant imminent defeat, efforts to broker a cease fire was anxiously begun by Soviet Union at the immediate request of Syrian commanders on 22th October 1973
On October 24th the a division led by General Megan from the rear and Colonel Abraham Aden closing in on the other rear guard of the Syrian armies cutting off any retreat by the Syrian forces that didn't take any live prisoners when they overran the Golan Heights. Only in the dying minutes.....
On October 22nd of 1973, the IDF armies regained control of Mt Hermon 
in northern Israel to continue their push towards Damascus along the Tiberias-Damascus route only to halt 26 miles away when a peace declaration was anounced on the 24th of October 1973 to cease the complete annihilation of the Syrian army.
Right picture of Israeli IDF giving humanitarian aid, a drink to a thirsty Egyptian woman
Though the outcome of the war is an Israelite victory yet the costs of the war out weighted the victory of 1973 Yom Kippur War with 2,668 of the finest fighting troops of Israel's IDF killed and a unspecified amount of injured troops. Where else Egypt losses amounted to 7,700 dead and 28,000 injured, Syrian army losses amounted to 3,500 killed with almost all the tanks and SAM missiles dismantled and destroyed by Israel's IDF with an unspecified 43,718 injured.
The 1978 Yom Kippur War was won with land based military assault without any air support as the Syrians were equipped with SAM 3 & 4 air to air missiles to incapacitate IDF Air Force.
(Added on 20-10-2007)
Under intense diplomacy efforts by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up a truce treaty, Camp David Accords which was officially signed on March 26th of 1979 in Washington in the presence of President Jimmy Carter between Israel PM Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. The reason why the treat was only signed after a long period, 6 years from the 1973 Yom Kippur War was because of unceasing hostilities between the two warring states.The conditions leading to the truce is that the Sinai Peninsular was to be returned to Egypt while the Gaza Strip would belong under Israel territory. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a military tribunal acquitted General Ariel Sharon of military violation of disobeying the commands of the Southern Command when it was found that the victory of 1973 Yom Kippur War was a result of his tactical military manouver.
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