Arab-Israeli Blitzkrieg
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Operation Focus - The Goal Was to Defeat the Egyptian Air Force
The war started on the fifth of june at seven forty five in the morning with operation focus. And indeed, it was a focused operation that the goal was to destroy the egyptian air force. Indeed, the israelis, ironically learnt this ino lesson from the germans during wold war too. The bliscreek the idea that in order to achieve quick, decisive victory, you need to really annihilate your enemy's air force. They certainly achieved this. It wasn't on so hundred, 83 israeli just they flew so low over the mediterranean, and they attacked 14 airfields a with such precision that they destroyed 83 % of the e Egyptian air
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