Jet-Fighter7700
Honorary Master
What do you mean?
Wrote a essay about it, and worked with somebody who was serving at the time
Yom kippur war, golda meir was too afraid to boslster up reserves, didnt listen to her generals that were SCREAMING at her egypt and syria gonna attack, writing on the wall, do something ,
She did nothing
In 2 days israel was pushed back almost to tel aviv, most reservists were fasting, and didnt mobilise in time, no equipment ready for them, initially was a bloodbath for israel,
The arabs shot down so many jets it became a sport, destroyed so many tanks it was like shooting fish in a barrel
Then came the turnaround, golda went to the us, and just like the beggining of "sum of all fears"
Said check your spy sats, if you dont help us, well turn the middle east into a radioactive dust bowl
The us blinked, and the biggest military airlift of all time resupplied israel with everything they needed, with even the us marines labels and markings still on them,
Israel pushed back, got halfway to cairo,
But since then people in israel never forget how the left wing nearly wiped us out,
One old guy here in my office told me the story and ive been ao inspired by how israel almost got wiped off the face of the earth becuse of one womans mistake.