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

Battle of Nablus

7 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 Peled Armd Div, 10,700 men under Bg Peled) attacked Jordan (Jor 25th Inf Bde, 8,640 men under Lcol El Khalidi) in Jordan. The CAA Database of Battles records 6 hours of fighting on a front of 3 km, a frontal attack, single envelopment, right rear against hasty defense and prepared defense, and that Israel won. Losses: Israel 375 (4%), 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	2,179
Israel centre	Infantry	2,906
Israel right wing	Infantry	2,179
Israel reserve	Infantry	1,816
Israel artillery (48 guns)	Artillery	720
Israel armour (180 tanks)	Armour	900
Bg Peled	Commander	—
In this plan		10,700

Jordan

Lcol El Khalidi

Unit	Arm	Men
Jordan left wing	Infantry	1,886
Jordan centre	Infantry	2,515
Jordan right wing	Infantry	1,886
Jordan reserve	Infantry	1,572
Jordan artillery (24 guns)	Artillery	360
Jordan armour (84 tanks)	Armour	420
Lcol El Khalidi	Commander	—
In this plan		8,639

What the sources report

	Israel	Jordan
Strength, this plan	10,700	8,640
Losses, this plan	375	350

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 553, “Nablus”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 6 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rugged, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense, Prepared defense
Front width: 3 km (attacker), 1 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Israelattacker	10,700	375	0	48	Frontal attack; Single envelopment; Right rear; Breakthrough; Pursued
Jordandefender	8,640	350	0	24	Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages training +1 · morale +1 · momentum +1 · initiative +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. 553 · 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.