Schematic plan · Arab-Israeli War, 1967 (Six-Day War)

Battle of Kabatiya

6 June 1967
Jordan
Victory for Israel

A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

Israel (Is Bar Kochva's Armd Bde(+), 12,800 men under Bg Peled) attacked Jordan (Jor 40th Armd Bde(-)(+), 9,900 men under Lcol El Khalidi) in Jordan. The CAA Database of Battles records 16 hours of fighting on a front of 1 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that Israel won. Losses: Israel 375 (3%), Jordan 350 (4%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Israel

Bg Peled

Unit	Arm	Men
Israel left wing	Infantry	2,731
Israel centre	Infantry	3,642
Israel right wing	Infantry	2,731
Israel reserve	Infantry	2,276
Israel artillery (48 guns)	Artillery	720
Israel armour (140 tanks)	Armour	700
Bg Peled	Commander	—
In this plan		12,800

Jordan

Lcol El Khalidi

Unit	Arm	Men
Jordan left wing	Infantry	2,146
Jordan centre	Infantry	2,861
Jordan right wing	Infantry	2,146
Jordan reserve	Infantry	1,788
Jordan artillery (24 guns)	Artillery	360
Jordan armour (120 tanks)	Armour	600
Lcol El Khalidi	Commander	—
In this plan		9,901

What the sources report

	Israel	Jordan
Strength, this plan	12,800	9,900
Losses, this plan	375	350

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 551, “Kabatiya”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 16 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rugged, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense
Front width: 1 km (attacker), 4.5 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Israelattacker	12,800	375	0	48	Frontal attack; Breakthrough; Withdrew
Jordandefender	9,900	350	0	24	Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1 · training +1 · surprise +1 · air superiority +1 · combat effectiveness +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 551 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.