the plan was simple the twenty fifth armored brigade would move northwards to meet up with the twenty first division which would advance southwards . in a pencil move the two armored units would close the gap and crush the israeli forces . the plan seemed straightforward but to general it was flawed. he wanted the brigade to cross to the west and make its assault on that side of the canal which was under gyptian control. general ismail ordered that new forces that had already crossed to the east should cross back to the west. this he said was a political decision taken by president sadat himself. would back down until finally president sadat was asked to come to the egyptian main command center known as center ten to arbitrate on this dispute between the top two commanders of his armed forces. at least i told him mr president i disagree with general it's might. as soon as i said so he blew up in my face blew up in my face and shouted at me and kept saying don't ever mention with mr president this is not that was droll it's it's maneuvering with force is no maneuvering with forces and

the plan was simple the twenty fifth armored brigade would move northwards to meet up with the twenty first division which would advance southwards . in a pencil move the two armored units would close the gap and crush the israeli forces . the plan seemed straightforward but to general it was flawed. he wanted the brigade to cross to the west and make its assault on that side of the canal which was under gyptian control. general ismail ordered that new forces that had already crossed to the east should cross back to the west. this he said was a political decision taken by president sadat himself. neither. would back down until finally president sadat was asked to come to the egyptian main command center known as center ten to arbitrate on this dispute between the top two commanders of his armed forces. with the us i told him mr president i disagree with general. as soon as i said so he blew up in my face blew up in my face and shouted at me and kept saying don't ever mention with mr president this is not those drugs it's maneuvering with forces no maneuvering with forces and no withdr

decision was clear the next day seventeenth of october at zero seven hundred hours the twenty fifth armored brigade moved northwards to carry out his mission. the chesley was about to be proved right. after ruslan comments from. the twenty fifth brigade came from the area of the bitter lakes and two tank brigades caught in a sort of ambush. about two tank brigades. one brigade on that side. and the other again on the other side the battle was over very quickly. egypt and suffered heavy losses. with sixty five chance to strong only ten able to retreat. southwards. had looked as if a new offense or shooting in the rocket. and the losses for the twenty fifth brigade were shocking maybe ninety percent of our tanks were lost and that was so sad because these were the best tanks in the egyptian army. sixty two. what was even more damaging was what happened to the fighting units around us that they regarded the twenty fifth armored brigade as their shield the pride of good gyptian army. so what happened to the twenty fifth armored brigade was a blow to the morale of the soldiers at the front during that b

i can afford from the east i had four armored brigades in the east with no job i said i have to bring them back tonight as have them. that night one small general smile you had to request sadat to come to the command center the president was unmovable he simply reiterated what he had said food days earlier and caught up. this as a weapon well it appears decision was to withdraw not a single rifle or tank from east to west everyone to stay where he is and fight that was nonsense this is not a war in the world that works like that you have forces under pressure and you do nothing to assist them while others have nothing to do and you don't want to bring them into the battlefield. that there's a lot of. study shows they have you know are in the whole. the father of the for a long time general. the special forces the pericope. i mean the kind of forces that do high risk. and i think he was really professional. but the. sometimes he would do a board thing and maybe on certain occasions it would be to truck bomb all right marianna. the fia in obama to add the commission. sadat's po

the plan was simple the twenty fifth armored brigade would move northwards to meet up with the twenty first division which would advance southwards. in a pencil move the two armored units would close the gap and crush the israeli forces. the plan seemed straightforward but to general it was flawed. he wanted the brigade to cross to the west and make its assault on that side of the canal which was under gyptian control. general ismail ordered that new forces that had already crossed to the east should cross back to the west. this he said was a political decision taken by president sadat himself. neither. would back down until finally president sadat was asked to come to the egyptian main command center known as center ten to arbitrate on this dispute between the top two commanders of his armed forces. at the latest i told him mr president i disagree with gen it's my ear. as soon as i said so he blew up in my face blew up in my face he shouted at me and kept saying don't ever mention with mr president this is not those drill words it's maneuvering with force is no maneuvering with force

situation was becoming very dangerous so on the twentieth i said tonight i have to bring back any armored brigade i can afford from the east i had for army brigades in the east with no job i said i have to bring them back tonight as this. that night one small general smiled had to request sadat to come to the command center the president was unmovable he simply reiterated what he had said food days earlier and caught up. this as a with well it appears decision was to withdraw not a single rifle or tank from east to west everyone to stay where he is and fight that was nonsense this is not a war in the world that works like that you have forces under pressure and you do nothing to assist them while others have nothing to do and you don't want to bring them into the battlefield. that doesn't give a lot of. it but if he shows they have you know are in the whole. the father rather be at it for a long time. the special forces the pericope. i mean the kind of forces that do high risk. and i think he was really professional. but the. sometimes he would do a board thing and maybe on certain occasions it w

on top of the casualties the commander of the hundred eighty eighth armored brigade. bencher homme was killed along with his deputy and operations officer. having failed in his main objective to take the israeli forward base that now found in his damascus command bunker president assad's decisions were looking increasingly desperate. salame or if. they were at one point a brigade was ordered to attack i gave the order to the commander being aware of the situation on the battlefield he asked me to postpone the attack from six in the morning to make it ten that i took this request from the brigade commander to the president i told him he's asking to postpone that attack until ten the president became angry he said he must start that attack at six o'clock otherwise he can hand over to his deputy i tried to ease the tension and then i made the suggestion again i said there is no difference between six and ten except that around two thousand of our troops will be killed so please approve ten but he became even more angry and hit the table with his fist although i've been o

of the video of the war one of the armored brigade commanders was martyred cause i know it so you. also his chief of staff was injured and the commander of their total brigade was martyred. there was a lot of confusion at the front. that's a world. with its awful lot so assault we definitely succeeded in stopping dozens if not hundreds of egyptian tanks and blowing them up with not many casualties on our side during the action. before the course lot by midday on the fourteenth of october two hundred fifty tanks had been lost. the egyptian general command ordered all advancing forces to retreat westwards to the bridge heads. there at the house it was an attempt to relieve the pressure on the syrian front but it didn't do that how could we do that the distance between us and them is five hundred kilometers how could we relieve the pressure. in fact by the time the egyptians launched their attack the syrian front had already been stabilized. israelis had been forced to halt their advance by the arrival of iraqi troops. begin very very in their home after. they arrived and surprised ou

on top of the casualties the commander of the hundred eighty eighth armored brigade.venture homme was killed along with his deputy and operations officer. having failed in his main objective to take the israeli forward base that now found in his damascus command bunker president assad's decisions were looking increasingly desperate. salame walking. the earth at one point a brigade was ordered to attack i gave the order to the commander being aware of the situation on the battlefield he asked me to postpone the attack from six in the morning to make it ten that i took this request from the brigade commander to the president i told him he's asking to postpone that attack until ten the president became angry he said he must start that attack at six o'clock otherwise he can hand over to his deputy i try to ease the tension and then they made the suggestion again i said there is no difference between six and ten except that around two thousand of our troops will be killed so please approve ten but he became even more angry and hit the table with his fist of being out there

on top of the casualties the commander of the hundred eighty eighth armored brigade.bencher homme was killed along with his deputy and operations officer. having failed in his main objective to take the israeli forward base that now found in his damascus command bunker president assad's decisions were looking increasingly desperate. salame or if. they were at one point a brigade was ordered to attack i gave the order to the commander being aware of the situation on the battlefield he asked me to postpone the attack from six in the morning to make it ten as i took this request from the brigade commander to the president i told him he's asking to postpone that attack until ten the president became angry he said he must start that attack at six o'clock otherwise he can hand over to his deputy i try to ease the tension and then i made the suggestion again i said there is no difference between six and ten except that around two thousand of our troops will be killed so please approve ten but he became even more angry and hit the table with his fist a little bit out there an

on top of the casualties the commander of the hundred eighty eighth armored brigade. bencher homme was killed along with his deputy and operations officer. having failed in his main objective to take the israeli forward base that now found in his damascus command bunker president assad's decisions were looking increasingly desperate. salame or if. they were at one point a brigade was ordered to attack i gave the order to the commander being aware of the situation on the battlefield he asked me to postpone the attack from six in the morning to make it ten that i took this request from the brigade commander to the president i told him he's asking to postpone that attack until ten the president became angry he said he must start that attack at six o'clock otherwise he can hand over to his deputy i tried to ease the tension and then i made the suggestion again i said there is no difference between six and ten except that around two thousand of our troops will be killed so please approve ten but he became even more angry and hit the table with his fist or the belly out on

comparison of the range and weight of fire from the artillery systems and the united states army armored brigade combat team and fairly typical russian motorized rifle brigade. so for those of you that are aware, a typical united states -- or typical western brigade will have three or four maneuver units supported by usually a single artillery unit. in the russian ground forces, it's three or four supported by three or four. so frequently in practice you'll actually see more like a one-to-one unit supported by artillery rocket systems, surface-to-surface missiles. so they have rocket launchers that have high rates of fire. they have more of them, and they support tanks and armored vehicles that are designed to have very high mobility, both the tactical and operational levels, and so essentially this is an army that's designed to move fast and to hit hard. so this is one of the areas that they have shown considerable improvement. they have narrowed the quality gap between themselves, and the west. there is still some important limitations, if you compare them to us. but it's important to put this

this expansion was done by the third brigade of the second armored division. i should say the first infantry division had six tank battalions and three infantry battalions. remember, it is a traditional lane, not a stipulation of what it does. after the penetration, we were told by seventh corps the first of many fibs. me,thought it was chillax ti we were going to chill out. the general had a different idea. he said now is our chance and will go after operational and strategic reserve of the iraq he army. you guys need to drive up there and take care of business. i will tell you, this is an relevant side, but something about how human nature works. fred franks would come to see me frequently. i am thinking, why is this man coming down here all the time hassling me about what is going to happen two weeks from now? all i want to know is if i'm going to live the day after tomorrow. franks is going to communicate to me what the future would look like. i was not interested in the future. my future was the next afternoon, the next day. am i right? have you guys been

armored personnel carrier. was my game to share so. so then they notified me that there's a brigadeon its way to be a leader and that the brigade commander for gabby i mean asks where is the battalion and i say therefore this is the battalion had laugh though he knows me and knows that i joke around sometimes for permits and i said to him no gabby this is the battalion. if you love every book. after the first wave of egyptian infantry has made the canal crossing thirty five battalions of engineers follow. additon once you figure look at. the engineers crossed with the second wave they put the palms together fixed the hoses and started to point them at the sand wall and started falling down feet this was a big breakthrough as opening up the hostages who enable us to operate the ferries a move some call it across especially the battalions artillery and the weapons needed to stop any counterattack by the enemy on the eastern side of the limits and let them. the next phase of the engine is what was to erect a pontoon bridge as for the tanks and heavy weapons. by sunrise on day two it lo

standown, they moved us to the delta, and we had gotten notice while we were back at brigade on standown that our armored unit had been ambushed in the village. i was totally blind sided. i don't think they expected viet cong or whoever was there to be there at all. they were rolling through there kind of leisurely with their armored personnel carriers and rpgs took out the first two tracks. literally, they were that hot when they pierced the outside of it. they lost several guys, like i say, they took down two armored personnel carriers. so we knew whatever we were going to get up against there was going to be pretty well armed, pretty good-sized weaponry, and that's the day -- that was right around, well, it was may 9, in fact, because that was the day that jack was killed. we were flown there, we got off the choppers. we knew where the village was. they told us that we were going to this village where we should be on the lookout, there's probably dug-in bunkers, which we suspected with what they did to the armored unit. after we got off the choppers, we start walking in toward the village. it was our