ABSTRACT
In the Six Day War the Israel Defense Force dealt a very heavy blow at the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. The Israel Defense Force's, which was then mobilized and deployed to meet the offensive arrays of the Arab armies, mounted a preemptive strike whose military results were extremely impressive. The Air Force, armor, and paratroops delivered a heavy military and morale blow against the four Arab armies that fought in the war. From the Arab point of view the Six Day War was the inevitable consequence of paradoxes in the Nasserist concept that emerged after 1948. Before 1967 Gamal Abdal Nasser did believe that war against Israel was inevitable and that it would be a onetime event: all-out war resulting in Israel's destruction. The fedayeen issue and the transition to a concept of attrition emerged in the 1950s as a reaction by Nasser to a concept that did not produce a rational plan for immediate war.
