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

Battle of Banias-Masaada

10 June 1967
Golan
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 Rgt, 11,400 men under unrecorded commanders) attacked Syria (Syr Rgt, 9,080 men under unrecorded commanders) in Golan. The CAA Database of Battles records 12 hours of fighting on a front of 1.4 km, a frontal attack against prepared defense, and that Israel won. Losses: Israel 50 (0%), Syria 500 (6%).

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

Unit	Arm	Men
Israel left wing	Infantry	2,342
Israel centre	Infantry	3,123
Israel right wing	Infantry	2,342
Israel reserve	Infantry	1,952
Israel artillery (48 guns)	Artillery	720
Israel armour (184 tanks)	Armour	920
Israel command	Commander	—
In this plan		11,399

Syria

Unit	Arm	Men
Syria left wing	Infantry	1,710
Syria centre	Infantry	2,280
Syria right wing	Infantry	1,710
Syria reserve	Infantry	1,425
Syria artillery (72 guns)	Artillery	1,080
Syria armour (175 tanks)	Armour	875
Syria command	Commander	—
In this plan		9,080

What the sources report

	Israel	Syria
Strength, this plan	11,400	9,080
Losses, this plan	50	500

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 641, “Banias-Masaada”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 12 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rugged, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Hot, Summer, Desert
Defender’s posture: Prepared defense

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Israelattacker	11,400	50	0	48	—
Syriadefender	9,080	500	0	72	—

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

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. 641 · 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.