Egypt & Africa
Operation Dovecote: Israel’s 1973 Plan to Wipe Out Egypt’s Army in Sinai, and Why It Failed
Israel never expected the Bar-Lev Line to stop Egypt by itself. Its real plan, code-named Dovecote, was to let Egyptian infantry cross the Suez Canal and then crush them with tanks. Egypt studied that plan and broke it within 48 hours.
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