Yom Kippur War: Insights Into Operational Theory

by Major Richard H. Gribling

Dayan, as well as the Prime Minister, Golda Meir, were concerned that world opinion would turn against Israel if it reacted overtly to an Arab buildup that had not yet crossed their borders. A compromise was reached "in which Elazar was authorized to mobilize 100,000 men....The

The seventeen strongpoints along the Purple Line were each occupied by only twenty soldiers with a platoon of three tanks adding a meager anti-tank capability.

With the success of these deep attacks, the Syrians were forced to thin out their forward ADA screen to protect Damascus and the ports.