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Clearing the Sinai
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DAVID R. WOODWARD
Published: 02 April 2006
...This chapter examines the challenges faced by the British soldiers in clearing Mount Sinai in Egypt. It discusses the difficulties of the soldiers in riding and managing their camels during this campaign. It also explores the establishment of the Egyptian Labour Corps (ELC) and the Camel Transport...
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Introduction
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Emanuel Sakal
Published: 15 September 2014
... Second Army Egypt anticipation of the IDF October 8–9 counterattack Third Army Egypt balance of forces on the eve of the war Zeevi Maj Gen Rehavam “Gandhi” as Elazar's assistant 7th Division Egypt actions on October 16th Division Egypt 162nd Division's counterattack on October 19th Division Egypt...
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The Spirit of the 76: The Israeli Embassy, Congress, and President Ford’s Reassessment
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Kenneth Kolander
Published: 03 August 2020
... dimensions—the extents and limits—of Israeli influence on U.S. foreign policy. Class of 1974 Ford Gerald Israeli embassy Washington D C McGovern George Reassessment 1975 Egypt Eisenhower Dwight hasbara Jerusalem Kissinger Henry occupied territories Sinai II disengagement agreement Soviet Union...
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Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East
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David R. Woodward
Published online: 14 September 2011
Published in print: 02 April 2006
... and The Light Horsemen . This book uses graphic eyewitness accounts from the diaries, letters, and memoirs of British soldiers who fought in that war to describe in rigorous detail the genuine experience of the fighting and dying in Egypt and Palestine. The massive flow of troops and equipment to Egypt...
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Johnson, Congress, and the Special Relationship: An American Commitment to the Survival of Israel
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Kenneth Kolander
Published: 03 August 2020
... Asia Arafat Yasser B’nai B’rith Civil Rights Movement Fatah Palestine National Liberation Movement Great Society Jordan River New Deal Palestine Liberation Organization PLO terrorism Algeria Britain Centurion tanks Cold War Department of Defense Department of State Egypt France HAWK...
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Air Support for the Ground Forces
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Emanuel Sakal
Published: 15 September 2014
... them as “a pain in the ass” and usually missing them. The IAF's accomplishments in the war were minimal, and its assistance to the ground forces negligible. air defense system Egypt buildup during the 1970–1973 ceasefire air superiority IAF timetable to attain air support for the ground forces...
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Published: 08 May 2013
... Hossein Hashemi Nader Moussa Amr nationalism al Farabi Ben Ali civil society Gandhi Mahatma Jahanbegloo Ramin philosophy Avicenna Ibn Sina Ibn Khaldun Ibn Sina Avicenna Egypt Egyptian uprising Arab Spring Kemalist Turkey Iran Revolution Autocracy History defies linearity. In a time...
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Land of the Pharaohs
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DAVID R. WOODWARD
Published: 02 April 2006
...This chapter examines the arrival of British troops in Egypt. The massive flow of troops and equipment to Egypt eventually made that country the greatest British military base outside of Britain and France. The British soldiers were deployed to protect the Suez Canal and those stationed there lived...
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Johnny Turk Triumphant
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DAVID R. WOODWARD
Published: 02 April 2006
... supremacy, the preservation of the balance of power in Europe, and the security of Egypt, India, and the Persian Gulf. This chapter also discusses the highlights of the campaign or the battle and describes the challenges faced by the soldiers. air reconnaissance Benbow Allen V Camel Transport Corps CTC ix...
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Somewhere in Africa
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Carol Boggess
Published: 27 October 2017
... aspect of his military experience to be the opportunity for travel and adventure in Africa, Egypt and the Holy Lands. He read widely but wrote and published little while overseas. Africa Accra Ghana army Gulf of Guinea Army Air Transport Command Italy Johnson Wade Amburgey Jethro Rawlings...
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Published: 07 June 2012
... Stereo Conversion Large Format Mummies Pharoahs Egypt Reed Smoot Tim Sassoon SFD By 2007, stereo conversion of flat motion pictures to 3-D, with the use of digital postprocessing tools, became an increasingly viable proposition. The 2007 giant-screen motion picture Mummies: Secrets ...
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“Better Is the End of a Thing Than the Beginning Thereof” (Eccles. 7:8)
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General Jacob Even and Colonel Simcha B. Maoz
Published: 15 August 2017
... for the Yom Kippur War, as well as Egypt’s objectives. At the war’s end in 1973, both Egypt and Israel believed, justifiably, that they had won a great victory because they fought for two separate but related goals. Israel sought to remove Egypt from the circle of war, and Egypt hoped to regain territory...
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Initial Blunders
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Emanuel Sakal
Published: 15 September 2014
... of 81mm mortars mortars 90mm antitank cannons 120mm mortars 20mm cannons antitank weapons Egypt in Egypt's war plans following the War of Attrition FN self loading rifle —early failures at the tactical level enemy observation of Dovecote deployment rocket propelled grenades RPGs Sagger antitank...
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The Preemptive Strike that Wasn't
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Emanuel Sakal
Published: 15 September 2014
... Agency CIA Dinitz Simcha Nixon Richard San Clemente summit Soviet Union aid to Egypt in the War of Attrition Arens Moshe Barak Lt Gen Ehud on Elazar's unfamiliarity with Sinai Osirak nuclear reactor attack Peres Shimon Dayan Moshe 1970 proposal for an Israeli initiated withdrawal from the canal...
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The Sinai II Agreements of 1975: A New Relationship
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Kenneth Kolander
Published: 03 August 2020
... an early-warning station in the Sinai Peninsula in order to preserve the agreement between Israel and Egypt. But by passing the resolution, Congress also authorized, by what Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) called “backdoor” approval, the executive agreements that committed the United States to providing...