February 15, 2019 by stvitusdancern
Welcome to Episode Two of the Ops Center with your host Oriskany! He takes us deeper in the conflict of the Six Day War and gives us even more great information that we can use to create scenarios that relate to this conflict.
Grab your favourite beverage and get stuck into the next instalment of the Six Day War of 1967. Can anyone say tanks?
What would you like to see as the next series?
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Nice work again Jim
Thanks very much, @grimwolfuk .
Now there are two very minor corrections to this video I’d like to make before our sharp-eyed viewers see them:
1) 12:33 I say “General Nasser” – this should be “President” Nasser
2) 16:25 I say “Israeli” 20-pounder Centurions and M48s – this should be “Jordanian” 20-pounder Centurions and M48s.
Hope everyone enjoys the video! 😀
Oh man! Grabbing some popcorn and sending this to the big screen in the home theater.
Thanks very much, @templar007 ! Hope you like it! ?
Great stuff look forward to see properly when I get home
Thanks very much, @rasmus , I hope you like it! That reminds me, I have to go check out your Dropzone PHR Reborn project …
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1265841/
Great video! So were there any Cold War repercussions here between the Soviets and the US – with the Soviets more or less instigating this war? Or did the Israeli preemptive strike large force the US to stand back on the issue – since Israel has struck first and thus gave up the international high ground?
Thanks, @pslemon – I almost feel as if you’ve answered your own question there. 😀 In summary, the Soviets hoped to destabilize American interests by putting their alliance with the Israelis in something of a dilemma. Align yourself with an aggressor, or turn your back on Israel (which the Israelis never really forgot). The problems for the Soviets was that Nasser pushed his “saber rattling” too far, and when the war finally started, the Egyptians lost far worse than even Soviet, DoD, or CIA analysts had predicted. The Americans never really followed through, however. They’d been forced to distance themselves… Read more »
Great Ops Center. Learned more about that war listening today than I have since hearing the war started on the news in 1967. The tie-in of games and simulations to the historical events are a real bright spot too. I was glad to hear Mike Benninghof’s “Sword of Israel” recommended. Beside the games in the Panzer Grenadier series being beautiful to look at and very playable, they are all chock full of scenarios that would take years to play. Which is a good thing since their new release lead times can take that long. Looking forward to the upcoming Ops… Read more »
Thanks so much for the kind words, @dodgyfarmer ! Really, this is just really just a summary of a much larger topic. For quick yet solid references, I would recommend the two books Osprey published on this, one for the Sinai, and one for the West Bank and Golan. https://ospreypublishing.com/the-six-day-war-1967-jordan-and-syria https://ospreypublishing.com/the-six-day-war-1967-sinai Yeah, I was very happily surprised to see Benninghof’s name among those who wrote Sword of Israel. When I first saw this a few years ago, the only thing by him I’d seen of his was his PanzerBlitz expansion for Finland, which I did NOT like very much. It… Read more »
Another great one! Though I almost wonder why they bothered. I mean it seems like everybody got their butt kicked by Israel. Was Israel just that good and they were just that stupid to even try? Though I can see the draw in playing this as a game on table top, because you can see if you can try and beat the Israelis for a change.
Honestly, @gladesrunner – they DIDN’T try. Nasser was lied to by the Soviets about a false Israeli mobilization against Syria, and as “leader of the PanArab World” Nasser felt he had to start rattling his saber, well, he rattled it too hard to the point where the Israelis thought he might actually use it. Of course we have 50+ years of hindsight now but even at the time it was pretty clear he didn’t INTEND to start anything, just look like he wanted to in order to gain political support. Unfortunately for him and an estimated 25,000 Egyptian casualties, the… Read more »
More good stuff.
’67 really cemented the ‘Victory Disease’ in the Israeli mindset and set up the next war; the Arabs have to try to reclaim their pride.
“Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
1967 to 1973 in a nutshell, if you ask me.
nice one @oriskany loved the details on the tank models though they were photos for a sec.
Thanks, @zorg – yeah, those first two slides are right from the new NEW Fate of a Nation book, which is actually pretty good (I only have the Kindle version – but I have some other Battlefront hardcovers and they’re great).
The last slide of the Magach M48 Pattons are mine.
Excellent as ever. I remember this war from when I was at school and discussing it in an art class. The general class consensus was pro Israel (possibly due to two popular members of our class being named Cohen) and being praised by the teacher for it. Probably wouldn’t happen in this day and age! Looking forward to the next part.
Thanks, @gremlin – The Six Day War at the time was incredibly “popular” here in the US. 1) America loves a little guy beating up on bigger bullies. Of course that wasn’t true, even from a strictly military view of the balance of actual power on the field, but that’s how it LOOKED. 2) American equipment blowing up Russian equipment. 3) Battlefields in places like Jericho, Jerusalem,and Bethlehem, places that resonate in the heartland. 4) The war was FAST. Quick, decisive, and OVER. I think many Americans quietly wished our war in Vietnam was going that way. This was the… Read more »
another fine episode Jim, I am actually learning stuff
Thanks very much, @wolf320f . We’re doing our best! 😀
Great work Jim!