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

Battle of Abu-Ageila (1967)

5 June 1967
Egypt
Victory for Israel

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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 Sharon Div, 19,280 men under Bg Sharon) attacked Egypt (Eg 2nd Inf Div, 18,450 men under Mg Naguib) in Egypt. The CAA Database of Battles records 9 hours of fighting on a front of 8 km, a single envelopment, left rear against fortified defense, and that Israel won. Losses: Israel 300 (2%), Egypt 900 (5%).

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 Sharon

Unit	Arm	Men
Israel left wing	Infantry	4,224
Israel centre	Infantry	5,632
Israel right wing	Infantry	4,224
Israel reserve	Infantry	3,520
Israel artillery (72 guns)	Artillery	1,080
Israel armour (120 tanks)	Armour	600
Bg Sharon	Commander	—
In this plan		19,280

Egypt

Mg Naguib

Unit	Arm	Men
Egypt left wing	Infantry	3,838
Egypt centre	Infantry	5,117
Egypt right wing	Infantry	3,838
Egypt reserve	Infantry	3,198
Egypt artillery (126 guns)	Artillery	1,890
Egypt armour (114 tanks)	Armour	570
Mg Naguib	Commander	—
In this plan		18,451

What the sources report

	Israel	Egypt
Strength, this plan	19,280	18,450
Losses, this plan	300	900

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 556, “Abu Ageila-Um Katef”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 9 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Flat, Desert
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Fortified defense
Front width: 8 km (attacker), 8 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Israelattacker	19,280	300	0	72	Single envelopment; Left rear; Breakthrough; Pursued
Egyptdefender	18,450	900	0	126	Defensive/offensive plan; Withdrew with heavy losses

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1 · training +1 · intelligence +1 · initiative +1 · surprise +2 · 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. 556 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Abu-Ageila (1967) · CC-BY-SA-4.0

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.