Aden's temper is not very good, but there is still no problem with business ability, at least there is no big problem in cleaning up the Arabs. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It's just that Nasser doesn't know this, and he thinks that with the support of the United States, the problem of defeating Israel is not particularly big.

So, on the one hand, Nasser is constantly making military preparations, and on the other hand, he is constantly testing the ceasefire line with Israel. For example, on January 17, 1950, Nasser announced to the Egyptian military and civilians: "A new stage has come. ”

The so-called new phase was when the Egyptian army launched a large-scale artillery bombardment of Israeli positions on the Kantara front line on the 20th of that month. The shelling was quite sudden, and it was a surprise to the Israelis, killing more than a dozen people and wounding more than 100 others in one day.

For other countries, such casualties may be negligible, but for the IDF, this is considered a major loss, why? Because Israel's human resources are limited, and their army is not particularly large in peacetime, it can be said that each and every one of them is precious. This has led to an interesting phenomenon in which the IDF is probably one of the few countries in the world where the reserve is more capable of fighting a war than the standing army.

The reason for this is also very simple: Israel's small country and small population make it impossible to devote all its precious human resources to national defense, so it can only maintain a lean standing army. What's more, for Jews, serving in the military was only a duty (both men and women alike), not a career, and for Jews who were better educated and good at business, the military was not very attractive, and most of them chose to retire soon after completing military service and then went about their own business.

Most of these people are veterans who have participated in actual combat and have rich combat experience, and their combat effectiveness is naturally stronger than those who have just joined the army. Israel's military service system, especially the reserve system, is quite complete, and the reserve is not a manan mountain, but a regular organization of training and exercises, and please note that Israel's reserve is not a fancy training and exercise, but training and exercises with the active forces. In this way, the combat effectiveness is naturally maintained quite well, and even the Israeli Ministry of Defense is not satisfied with this, and it also recalls the reserve officers and soldiers back to active duty and re-serve for a period of time.

The most obvious example is the famous Sharon, who retired before the October War in 1973, but immediately after the outbreak of the war, he returned to active duty, and led and commanded a reserve division that had also just returned to active duty to participate in the battle, and performed quite well.

Continuing to get back to the point, the Egyptian army did not take advantage of the heat after tasting the sweetness of a round of artillery fire on the 20th, because Nasser's preparations were not particularly adequate at this time, so he chose to pause, and then fought with Israel around the framework of the United Nations. put on a villain's face and stopped taking advantage of a small advantage.

Of course, this is definitely Nasser's disguise, he is not a little thief who takes advantage of it and stops, he wants to completely solve Israel, and the current approach is just his disguise. It was called deception, and he hoped to deceive and paralyze the Israelites and buy them a little more time.

And Israel seems to have been fooled, and the two sides are constantly arguing about the question of who is right and who is wrong around the framework of the United Nations.

Some comrades may want to say that Nasser's methods are not clever, but this is clearly a strategy to delay the army, and it is easy to see through it. Hehe, you're underestimating Nasser if you look at it like that. After a month of continuous artillery fighting, the Egyptian army suddenly launched another large-scale artillery bombardment that lasted for nine hours, and once again caused some casualties to the Israeli army.

It has to be said that this is another brilliant deception tactic, and it is generally believed that the Egyptians shelled two times in a row just to make a small advantage, or to gain the upper hand at the negotiating table. If the Egyptians were really prepared to launch a large-scale campaign, they would definitely not have been constantly provoking the Israelis to raise their vigilance against the Jews.

In fact, Nasser also made two calculations, because with the assistance of the United States, Egypt initially established a powerful artillery force, and the ammunition is sufficient, it can completely launch artillery operations continuously, accumulate a lot of "sporadic kraft candy", and use the accumulated sporadic casualties to accumulate a lot, forcing Israel to give up the confrontation and retreat.

This is the first level of purpose, if this level of purpose is achieved, Nasser will naturally accumulate prestige in the Arab world, and with prestige, he will naturally have more appeal, and naturally Nasser can call on more Arab countries to follow in his footsteps. If the siege posture of the first Middle East war can be formed, it will be much easier to destroy Israel.

If this situation is really formed, then Nasser's second purpose has also been achieved, which preliminarily shows that he has integrated the Arab countries, and is one step closer to the next step of building a unified Arab empire.

So how did Israel respond? Or rather, what is the attitude of the Israelis?

I have to say that Nasser's tricks can't deceive the Jewish profiteers who have dealt with the European powers for 2,000 years, this group of Jewish profiteers has never seen any kind of means, what kind of shameless old fox has never fought against, compared with those real masters, Nasser's tricks are really not enough to see.

Let's put it this way, from the day Nasser came to power, the Mossad has been focusing on his movements, carefully analyzing the political attitude of the new Egyptian leader. After a year of observation, the Mossad came to the tentative conclusion that this man was ambitious and must be Israel's great enemy.

Based on this conclusion, the Mossad also conducted in-depth discussions and research, and initially ascertained Nasser's true thoughts, believing that he was trying to create a pan-Arab alliance and prepare to completely eliminate Israel. In Mossad parlance, not a single word of this man's promises and assurances regarding the Middle East can be trusted.

In other words, the Israelis have simply seen through Nasser's tricks and believed that his real purpose was to launch an all-out war to destroy Israel, and that the current actions were nothing more than smoke bombs and delaying the army.

Then it is strange, why did the Israelis accompany Nasser to fight with their mouths? The reason is also very simple, as mentioned earlier, Israel's defense military service policy is relatively special, and it may not have much chance of winning by relying only on the standing army, so Israel needs time to call up the reserves, and it will take time for the reserves to return to a wartime state. Nasser wants to engage in a delaying tactic? The Israelites couldn't ask for it!

Moreover, Israel foresaw that the scale of this war might not be small, so it was better to be more prepared, taking advantage of Nasser's delaying tactics, they just happened to make better preparations, such as urgently purchasing or obtaining some military aid from the Soviet Union, in case the scale of this war suddenly became larger or dragged on longer.

Israel wanted arms, the Soviet Union wanted foreign exchange, and Israel was the cornerstone of the Soviet Union's Middle East policy, so the two sides naturally hit it off. In just a month, the USSR urgently exported to Israel a batch of second-hand mothballed T-34 and T-35, as well as a batch of MiG-15 fighters and a large number of La-series fighters.

Of course, Israel is also acting with Nasser in order to paralyze him, and similar conflicts have not been without him in the past, basically you fire a cannon and I will return you a bomb, if Israel is beaten and does not fight back, I am afraid it will arouse Nasser's vigilance. So on the third day after the second round of shelling in Egypt, Sharon led the elite 101 unit in a helicopter attack on targets in Egypt, destroying a bridge and an electrical substation.

This made Nasser a little embarrassed, but he didn't panic, because he had been waiting for the Jews to retaliate, and if the Jews didn't do it, he would feel abnormal, and now that the Jews have done it, it means that they have been tricked. Of course, Nasser was not satisfied with the losses, and it was unreasonable that he had ordered his troops to be more vigilant, but he had allowed the Jews to catch the flaws.

As a result, Nasser urgently issued another presidential decree ordering the widespread formation of militias to patrol vital civilian and military installations. In addition, he also urgently urged the relevant personnel to strengthen their combat preparedness and make preparations for war as soon as possible.

While Nasser was preparing, Israel was no longer planning a war plan, but the Israelis were a little more troublesome, because for Nasser, he had only one choice, that is, to attack, and there was no way to destroy Israel without attacking, and basically Nasser did not have to worry about the Jews hitting the Suez Canal, because the big boss behind this canal was the United States, and he would not dare to blow up with the United States if he lent the Jews two guts. So the main mission of Egypt is to attack!

However, Egypt's thinking is wrong, Israel does not lack the courage to attack, it is true that they cannot touch the Suez Canal for the time being, but not touching the Suez Canal does not mean that they cannot attack, the Sinai Peninsula is big enough to fight a war of annihilation.

Therefore, within Israel, there are actually three opinions on future war strategies, the first is to attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Egyptians are not ready to launch a surprise attack, and using Soviet-style tactics of great depth to make dumplings. The second idea is to lure the enemy deeper, and then take advantage of the IDF's armor superiority to surround and eat meat from the enemy's ribs. The third opinion is very simple, based on defense, first defend to the death to withstand the Egyptian attack, and then counterattack in one fell swoop after exhausting the sharpness of the Egyptian army.

Each of these three opinions has its own reasoning, and taking the initiative to attack has the advantage of taking the initiative to attack, so that the initiative can be firmly grasped in hand. However, there are also problems with taking the initiative to attack, and if Israel takes the initiative to attack, it will be regarded as a provocation by the international community, and public opinion will be very unfavorable. In particular, the United States and Britain are very sensitive to the Suez Canal, and once they misunderstand, the consequences will be severe.

Luring the enemy deep into the encirclement and annihilation war, this choice is also not bad, the IDF has a high degree of mechanization, is very good at mobile combat, and the Egyptian army's logistical supply ability and combat will are quite problematic, stretching the opponent's supply line, and then closing the door and beating the dog in one fell swoop, it is not difficult to create a brilliant victory.

However, there are also problems, so that the Egyptian army can basically be cleared after a war, and it is conceivable that there will not be many Egyptians who can flee back in formation. Some comrades want to say, isn't it a good thing to completely annihilate the enemy? It's a good thing and a bad thing, and now Egypt is dancing happily under Nasser's leadership, but to be honest, the threat to Israel is limited. And once the Egyptian army is defeated, the foundation of Nasser's rule will inevitably be shaken, and it will be another political earthquake in Egypt. As for the United States, the behind-the-scenes boss of Egypt, it is not easy to get rid of Egypt, and naturally hopes that Egypt will be stable, and once there is turmoil in Egypt's political arena, the Americans will probably all blame it on Israel, and Israel does not want to offend the United States for the time being.

Taking a step back, even if Nasser does not fall, with his ambition, he is probably not willing to surrender and admit defeat, and he is afraid that he will be more proactive in reorganizing his armaments, and then be ashamed. In other words, this war is just the beginning, and the future will be a continuous entanglement, with no end at all. For Jews, returning to Palestine is a desire to live and work in peace, not to come here to find the excitement of war and play live CS.

It seems that it is more reliable to defend and counterattack, to limit the scale of the war, to selectively eliminate the Egyptian army, and not to lose an inch of land? Hehe, don't think so pretty, defense means attrition, and Israel's national power is the most unbearable. The Jews had already learned the difficulty of defending East Prussia in World War II, and they had to pay the price of blood to stop the Nazi northern cluster. Although the Egyptian army did not even deserve to carry shoes for the Nazis, the Jews still had defensive concerns and did not want to fall into such passivity.

For a moment, the Jews were a little undecided and did not know what to choose. At this time, the international situation is also quietly changing. The skirmishes between Egypt and Israel did not attract much attention from the media, the Bay of Pigs incident continued to ferment, and Truman's side was not only under great pressure but also anxious, so he had to "urge" Nasser to act quickly, for which he did not hesitate to give Nasser some assistance, and there was only one condition - to start as soon as possible!

According to Nasser's meaning, he naturally hoped to prepare more, but now the Americans seem to be more anxious than him, and even let him burn his ass a little. After thinking about it, Nasser thought that even if the preparations were not completely completed, they would not be far from ten, and the longer they prepared, the easier it would be for the Jews to see through them. (To be continued.) )