What is the war of attrition?

The concept of attrition war

It is a name given by the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser - may God have mercy on him - for that war that broke out between the Egyptian Republic and the Israeli Zionist entity on the eastern and western banks of the Suez Canal; Where this war took place between the two parties in the year 1967 AD and continued until the year 1970 AD.

After the heavy defeat suffered by the Arab armies in the year 67, and especially the Egyptian army, Egypt evacuated its forces from the Sinai Peninsula, and retreated beyond the West Bank from the Suez Canal. With all the capabilities available to it. On July 1, 1967 AD, Egyptian artillery began striking Israeli forces near the canal, and the other began to respond to the Egyptian forces on the canal.

Egyptian weapons were suffering from a clear deficiency in performance, due to the decline in their performance and old technologies when compared to the technologies that the Israeli army enjoyed, which prompted the Egyptian leaders of all levels to communicate with the Soviet Union and request assistance from them in order to develop these weapons, Many efforts have been made to this end.

Stages of War of Attrition

The war of attrition between the Egyptian army and the Israeli army went through many different and varied stages, and among the most important and prominent of these stages: the stage of steadfastness, which included many battles, the most prominent of which was Ras al-Ush, and the battles fought by the Egyptian air forces, in addition to the Egyptian artillery battles, and finally Sinking of a naval destroyer of the Zionist occupation army.

The battle or the second stage was the stage of active defense, which is a major and fundamental turning point in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict during the war of attrition As this stage aimed to hit the Zionist entity’s army with the largest losses, and these strikes were centrally planned, and this phase paved the way for the attention of the usurping Zionist army to the need to improve its improvements on its part, which helped one way or another to develop the defenses of what is known as the Bar Lev line, except The Egyptians were aware of any improvement made on this line, which led them to know and study its weaknesses well.

The third stage was the challenge and attrition phase, and it began in February 1969; As this stage of the conflict has been managed professionally and with high coordination. It is noteworthy that the war of attrition ended in 1970.