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

Battle of Rawiyeh

9 June 1967
Syria
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 Ram Bde, 5,350 men under Col Ram) attacked Syria (Syr 8th Inf Bde(+), 4,350 men under Bg Tayan) in Syria. The CAA Database of Battles records 4 hours of fighting on a front of 5 km, a frontal attack against fortified defense, and that Israel won. Losses: Israel 150 (3%), Syria 300 (7%).

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

Col Ram

Unit	Arm	Men
Israel left wing	Infantry	1,090
Israel centre	Infantry	1,453
Israel right wing	Infantry	1,090
Israel reserve	Infantry	908
Israel artillery (24 guns)	Artillery	360
Israel armour (90 tanks)	Armour	450
Col Ram	Commander	—
In this plan		5,351

Syria

Bg Tayan

Unit	Arm	Men
Syria left wing	Infantry	827
Syria centre	Infantry	1,103
Syria right wing	Infantry	827
Syria reserve	Infantry	690
Syria artillery (76 guns)	Artillery	653
Syria armour (50 tanks)	Armour	250
Bg Tayan	Commander	—
In this plan		4,350

What the sources report

	Israel	Syria
Strength, this plan	5,350	4,350
Losses, this plan	150	300

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 566, “Rawiyeh”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 4 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rugged, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Hot, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Fortified defense
Front width: 5 km (attacker), 5 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Israelattacker	5,350	150	0	24	Frontal attack; Penetration
Syriadefender	4,350	300	0	76	Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages leadership +1 · training +1 · morale +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. 566 · 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.