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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Which is why I still don't understand how the regforce works. For such a short and small war, the regforce should have been able to handle it all by itself. We're talking what? 5 brigades?
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There was also an offensive in Gaza going on. Givati is one of the regforce brigades, and it was there, couldn't leave. Besides, if you use the whole of the regforce, then you're leaving in defense against other threats only reservists. At the time, there was thought to be a real possibility of escalation to wider conflict, with Syria in particular. The Golan ties up two of the best armored brigades.
AFAIK Regforce:
401 (Armor)
188 (Armor)-Golan
7 (Armor)-Golan
Nahal (Inf.)
Golani (Inf.)
Givati (Inf.)-Gaza
Paras (Inf.)-?
Kfir (Inf.)-West Bank (specialized in MOUT)
The unmarked ones went to Lebanon AFAIK. So at least 3 regforce brigades. Not sure if the paratroopers were there, I'd imagine, but I don't know.