field Marshal Ahmed Ismail reveals the details of the plan last battle
Is it possible that Israel voluntarily withdraw from the Arab territories? How many times pulled colonization of any country desire? Why withdraw the owners of the land on each Mthalkon dissidents in everything but prepare?
Are all questions revolved in my head before the war found her answer, as I wrote with my own hand, that any occupation is not cleared its only military force confirmed, whether exercised this power compressed fighting bloody or notified the enemy by Fajhy than inflict heavy losses, then had to be our armed forces are capable and confident of itself, and its weapons, and its leaders, so that represents a high degree of efficiency allows her best performance in a timely manner, and it must, of course, to embrace troops principle of the inevitability of fighting a substitute, and that a peaceful solution is not an option at all, and that the battle must that occur at the earliest possible time and the most appropriate, which is our conviction that equal honor Bdlty military promised to them again.
I've been convinced for the duration of my military service that the man, not the weapon, is the one who wins, Vanasr consists first in the hearts of men and then acquired by men in the battlefield, and this can not be a fighter, whatever his rank or degree and whatever give him the weapon to succeed or win, unless documented in the same basis, and documented in their leaders and in his arm and in the justice of his case, all this in addition to his faith in God first and foremost.
Thus, instill self-confidence among the soldiers to each other, and between them and the leaders and among all, and the weapon, it was the most important things, which focused on in my words since the first day exercised the responsibility of leadership, I have had in hand a good weapon, but the general atmosphere doubt very much , no doubt in size, about the quality, yes I admit the existence of weapons and equipment more advanced than what we have in some disciplines, but said that the weapon, which in our hands because it is zero ability incompetent or undeveloped? It says it aims to do all in order to find an excuse for not fighting, although it could and equipment complementary to boost the efficiency of some of the weapons, and this is what we've done already, because we got a supplementary equipment from different countries raised the efficiency of these weapons, and their effectiveness, and some developments weapons and equipment invented by the Egyptians.
In any event, whatever the reasons, it must take into account when allocating tasks forces that fit the nature of the weapons, and the means available to us, and we know the weaknesses of the enemy and try to exploit, and the strengths and try to invalidate plans smart at the same time take advantage of the points and factors of our strengths and minimize as much as possible of our weaknesses, ie a nutshell we can put the best plans according to the circumstances and possibilities available to us, and can these plans are to achieve our tasks of combat, so focused in my meeting with the men of the armed forces on the necessity of confidence in the efficiency of the weapon, which in our hands, which was not a compliment to one, it is important How we use are very effective, and perhaps the outcome of the October War confirmed the truth of what you say, and we had for the conditions surrounding us to preserve this weapon, and kiss him, and use the best use, not to apply the principles of the military, but because what we have is the foundation did not for us to let him in vain, that we will not let him leave the enemy.
And the right responded men and cooperated with me quickly and very seriously, especially because I have had mostly bonds of fellowship earlier touched through which over Agdity and Azmi to exert maximum effort and energy, to improve the efficiency of combat units and formations which served them, in addition to my efforts when I was the leader of the Front after the aggression of 67, and then I a Chief of Staff, and had a greater virtue in support of mutual trust between them and Penny, Vdhaafoa of their efforts and their work is akin to a miracle, especially since they sensed in every moment that the hope of their nation and the fate of their country in their hands, as they sensed their growing, especially after the decision of the President of on July 8, 1972 to end the work of experts Soviets, and it was this decision means that the inevitable battle has become a non-negotiable, and that the responsibility for the whole has become in the neck thought Egyptian and forearm Egyptian, as it was also means absolute confidence of the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, and that was Features of the image on the front.
I am appalled by what I was told it was not possible to achieve any cooperation or coordination between Syria and Egypt, I ask myself, and I say to my colleagues: Why this talk? Egypt and Syria since the eras of history gone for two roles immortal in the defense of the region, tell us all the evidence of contemporary history, and tells us the logic and calculations Military: The two countries constitute Faki pliers applied to the enemy Kalpndqh, and can photograph smashing ribs and paralyze the movement, namely the two Arab countries their history distant joint, and the history of nearby extended, and share a day interests of one them together one goal, and rights in the Arab Syria, like the human Arab in Egypt, efficient and capable of giving and giving, then why those fears and doubts, and it was logical to visit Syria sister, and there I met comrades in arms , and we discussed the whole situation, frankly, and we started immediately prepare and arrange for joint work anticipated and inevitable, and when you look at the features of the image on the other side you stop in front of the elements of the enemy force.
These are the Suez Canal, as a contraceptive aqueous unique in length, width and depth, and these are the fortifications of the Bar Lev line along the length of the channel, with its many strong points are supported with arms and sophisticated equipment, and surrounded by all the taper him thought human inhibitions, and behind it all lines other defensive The gatherings armor strong and its flight superior, and the light of those facts we think - leaders in their respective jurisdiction and I - after that we raised a final idea to postpone the war until getting a weapon similar, and in the context of our faith are all in the arms of men and finished to develop a comprehensive plan to ensure solving all problems and military obstacles and lead at the same time to achieve the following:
First, surprise the enemy:
Necessitated achieve this objective deception strategic plan and tactical and tactical, participated in the implementation of the Ministry of War with the relevant agencies in the state.
Second: the storming of the Suez Canal and the destruction of the Bar Lev line:
Just ask to break into the channel numerous studies and accurate to determine the most appropriate means and the best time to ensure the success of this task in the shortest time and with minimum losses, may request the destruction of the Bar Lev line and storming intensive studies of other exercises and realistic violent used where equipment devised by the thought of a fighter Egypt, and was in addition to his insistence cause in the fall of this line in a time of astonishment and admiration of the enemy's military men of thought throughout the world, especially since the intrusion was confrontational.
Third, reduce the impact of the superiority of the enemy's armor and aviation:
For armor, we decided to empower soldier from the face of the tank, and to overcome them in various ways, especially in the small hours remaining to complete the establishment of the crossings, which reflect the Madratna and our heavy weapons, and I've managed our soldiers in achieving that task became something steadfastness tanks in battles questionable studies in the light of what happened During the fighting in October
To overcome Lee outweigh the enemy in aviation was our way to achieve two things:
1 - to be our offensive along the confrontation, which forced the enemy to distribute anti air strikes.
2 - cooperate fully and accurately between the forces of Air Defense missile network and our air force aircrafts so that the two together and coordinate between them from the face of the enemy planes.
The method has been successful to the extent of the enemy and has since the first hours of the war feature air superiority.
It was not the all the problems that we faced and we managed to overcome them; since there were other problems are many, but not time to detect them or to talk about our approach to overcome, so the situation was an Egyptian and Syria, and in front of the enemy, that there is another arena is important for our actions and I mean by the Arab countries, it is unquestionably one nation have a common history, and culture of the one, and also one destiny, which is the power of its weight in the global ocean, is it possible to get into the war and we are away from home or in a ghetto us?
It can not be taken for granted, and this is prompting President Anwar Sadat to purify the air and remove the Arab commented impurities from working with their continued existence to find differences and contradictions between the sons of one family, and this was also firm in my conviction and belief.
In light of which, I began my tour in the Arab countries and the newborn with Arab leaders is about to confirm the inevitability of the battle and the inevitability of victory where any cost, we did not ask one to fight our battle instead of us, did not hate anyone to contribute to the effort specified, but the goal creating an environment fit for battle and the mobilization of the possibilities available and possible, whether human or a weapon or money or even support politically and morally, and had two rounds just a step on the road to boot political and intensive efforts made by the Supreme Commander of President Anwar Sadat during his meetings with presidents of Arab and during his visit to more than one Arab country, especially in the weeks prior directly on the war, and these moves has become the theater of operations ready for movement and became the Egyptian armed forces and the Syrian in standby mode final.
During that period, of course, did not stop the meetings at all levels, and the most important meetings of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt, and a number of them headed by President Sadat was in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces focuses on three elements:
1 - absolute confidence in the armed forces and thought leadership and performance.
2 - the historical responsibility for the battle of liberation and self-determination.
3 - his warning to follow the stereotypes in the planning and implementation.
It was a stereotype is what I hate hate is severe, it is a classic style puts a restriction on the movement does not leave room for innovation and creativity, either in planning or in the application of tactical and technical aspects during implementation.
There were also at the level of federal leadership meetings of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces common in Egypt and Syria, starting on August 21 in 1973 to coordinate the final shape of the battle.
To openly now and I recall those difficult days in my mind I find that what we have set the main lines of our stage was quite clear, in my mind, there was no room for coincidence, everything goes according to the latest methods scientifically and globally, we have been moving in the three main axes task:
First, raise the efficiency of the defense plan for the country and the required equipment and the possibilities.
Second, develop plans to deter the enemy if they tried the usual ability to assault us.
Third, and most importantly, the development of the comprehensive plan for the battle ahead.
Although opposed to these themes, and sometimes we thought we were able to pure Egyptian implement them efficiently we crossed the stage of readiness by forbearing to stage bloody incursion, which stormed out of our Arab nation whole new era prospects, for occupies its rightful position as an influential force her account in the balance of the whole world.
It was necessary to develop a plan of deception involving the president himself, and the State Department have had an important role in the plan of deception.
And actually before the war 60 days found officers specialize to implement the plan of deception, along with paper carry out what it is exactly, and the word of the secret war the letter Z, and before the war, a week or ten days, and put the operating room plan from within the plans of deception, was that Egypt will implement a strategic project and leaked the news and statements to Israel and part of it is encrypted, and already ratified by Israel that Egypt is on the verge of entering in the project, so we were able to delude the enemy that there is no war and found pawns playing football and came Moshe Dayan himself to see the situation on the front on the war, and found Asaker playing and came back, and in time second five minutes he told Golda Meir that there is no war, responded it: No, I was hitting our air force station 10, which is the center of the underground space is long and a main room and there are side rooms stations, electricity and air conditioning, but a malfunction occurs in the air-conditioning during the war was to run fans There is also a regular Wireless Telephones, but was connected to the place far from the center 10 so as not to allow the enemy to know where the leadership of the war.
Did not know the date of the war and there is no officer knows the date, but on Friday evening when he came Brigade Jeridly with the chief of operations, Major General Gamasy, they took a group of officers and wrote the paper handwritten decide to be an hour Sen hour 1405 on October 6, and placed in envelopes and handed over to the officer Correspondent which will arrive to the commander of the army personally, was selected officers correspondence, and released them to the instructions that: if there is a problem in the way swallow the paper immediately except one band that I took this circumstance week earlier, knowing that the officers who are in the same operating room did not know that.
It was devastating to go from the Gulf of Tobruk from the Red Sea and descend to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb and the trip was a week-long journey in.
Then on Saturday, in the morning, I told them to be dropped off the map war which they were trained, and the process was very organized.
At 12 and a half out from the center of 10 and did not leave any news of any person, where I'm going, and I went to President Sadat at his home and took him with me back to the center 10.
Centre 10 is a room large square and there is a large table along the room and President Sadat sitting in the half on his right hand, and on the North Chief of Staff Working Saad El Shazly and confronts us on the other hand, Major General Hassan Jeridly and next 2 officers take turns writing any orders issued by their president or I or Chief of Staff.
The Gamasy sitting on the desk alone and next MP its own, and sometimes sitting next to some, after the Office of Gamasy office similar to it sits where two of the deans are working only on the control of the place and has the right to enter or exit, and call head office control, and have nothing to do war or who are working.
On the other side run no screen of glass and behind the screen pawns dressed in black, and this screen is painted with the Canal Zone and military airports and the enemy and all of Sinai, and are drawing versa even see the inside of a room center 10, the graphics set and paint in different colors pilots Egyptian, the color of Egypt and the pilots of the enemy different color.
In the latter aspect of the center of 10, it hung a large map of the war plan, which has been implemented, and in the middle of a large map placed the center and around the Planning Branch officers and their responsibility to follow the plan.
And whispered in the ear of President Anwar Sadat, saying: «Congratulations Aafindm each air strike succeeded and survival to God, your brother Atef killed in the air strike», individual Sadat «They are all my children uniform uniforms the rest of his teammates».
Curtain .. Channel .. Line
To be or not to be
The Bar-Lev line and the berm is what most worries me during the preparation of the planning course of the war in October 1973, and the question was, who do not Evariqna I and General Gamasy is how we will overcome those barriers, which announced Golda Meir day had her, it is a symbol of intelligence Israeli, and that any attack on the line Bar-Lev, an insult to the Israeli intelligence?It was not limited to the Bar-Lev line and the berm only, but extended to the Suez Canal itself, it'd a water depth of 16 meters, a width ranging between 180 meters - 220 meters. Which means the concentration of the crossing points are catching makes our troops, is easy. In addition to the creation of Israel mined the edge of the channel on the eastern Dvtha is unprecedented. As if geography is Taandena other obstacle put in front of us again .. drawback was phenomena tidal waters of the canal, another problem more difficult forces in transit when you start installing bridges. Vmnsop water changes in the channel four times per day, bringing the difference between the highest and lowest root of 60 centimeters in the north of the channel, and 200 centimeters in the south. We overcame that problem studied to determine the most appropriate hours a day to cross, and we began to train our forces to create bridges in the shortest possible time, so they can tanks and heavy weapons from crossing to the east bank to open gaps and corridors in the berm, as well as the entry of armored vehicles and tanks to the depth of the Sinai. The training was done on it in the western Delta, and through training, we discovered that the creation of gaps in the berm using artillery fire and improvised explosive devices, takes the process is not suitable for transit. Corps of Engineers began in the armed forces in conducting experiments on the use of water pumps German after making adjustments to the way they work to pump 200 cubic meters of water per hour. And that was the way in which we chose them, so we bought 150 pump German, in addition to what we had a 350 pump British-made, and we have dedicated five pumps per hole; as it was on the troops to open between 75-85 gap in the berm in a period not more than five hours, to remove 1500 cubic meters of sand .
We saw it at the same time, which starts the pumps work gaps, soldiers from crossing the first troops of the bolt and pedestrians, to climb the berm, sharp angle measured accurately, carrying on their backs anti-tank missiles, and weapons of their own .
The fact that we did not have enough of those weapons, and the extreme fear on our troops and our men who risked their lives at that moment, where rain Israeli fire, which was lying in wait for them. But they had the task of destroying Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, which established her enemy emplacements at the top of the berm, has trained men to cross dozens of times in one of the sites in southern Egypt; And so it was not difficult for them to cross the channel on October 6 .
The Bar Lev Line was composed of 30 sites bunker, were built along the canal from the area of Port Said until Tawfiq, and the area of each site 500 m × 500 m, representing each site point poll, in addition to being the hub engineered strong, giving the enemy a chance to control on the Suez Canal to the north and south, not in terms of East and West, but also the West Bank. And support for this line a second line inside Sinai at a distance of kilometers from the first line, in anticipation of any successful attempt to cross the channel in our troops .
The canal is the weak point grand, despite training dozens of times on the crossing in southern Egypt, since the crossing was to be using boats rubber slow, are easy targets for enemy guns, but Israel established tanks napalm got her tubes in the direction of the western coast of the channel, ignites automatically from within Bar Lev Line forts in case of any attempt to cross the Channel .
We have been the subject of pity everyone who visits the front of the military experts or officials in countries where we maintain our relationship with them. They say one phrase: «The problem is not crossing the channel has a solution, and there is a solution, and will not have a solution» .. But the men proved good hosts of the earth that nothing is impossible for them ..
We had the front channel surge Medanian two armies second and third, contain five infantry divisions in the first echelon of the armed forces, in addition to the Gaza Port Said military, and plans to break into the channel confrontational and not of aspects for not we have so sufficient number of helicopters, which allows landing forces the whole atmosphere, with Making the attack along the front line to reduce strikes on enemy aircraft forces transit. The plan was to cross the lightly armed infantry and anti-armor weapons and tanks to form the first wave of transit, and to stand a chance in the face of the enemy for 24 hours until the completion of the establishment of bridges to cross and installed tanks. I've had to install the bridge take between 6 and 8 hours .
I can not here omission talk about bodies and departments of the core organization of the armed forces, which has made its best to remove the obstacles to troop to the success of the process of crossing that were not in any way a coincidence, or a gift of luck, but the result of hard work, and the will of the Egyptian, which abt refraction Egypt. I work men in the armed forces to overcome all odds, including reducing the time of installation of bridges on both banks of the canal to between 6-8 hours, instead of 12-24 hours. We have also established terraces tank on the berm Egyptian on the West Bank to help the infantry and support in its war with the Israeli tanks and armored vehicles while crossing the Egyptian tanks, and the extent of fire arms and Egyptian tanks up to a depth of 2.5 kilometers .
We manufacture carts dragged to carry ammunition, anti-tank infantry directly behind, due to need them in the first hours of the battle, as the Egyptian troops were trained to fight day and night, and the highest levels of training. Our focus throughout the preparations for war keyholder to raise the morale of the soldiers, and
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