ABSTRACT
The IDF only opened the offensive in which it crossed the Suez Canal on the tenth night of war. Was Israel fighting with no consideration for a political timetable, or for the clock hung over her head like a sword? If so, was the delay the result of tactical mistakes and bad decisions or of faulty strategic conceptions that pre-dated the Day of Judgement War? Could the IDF have achieved an earlier decision over the Arab armies and, if so, where could the war have been shortened?
