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Originally Posted by xerxes
very intresting, .. my past studies on the six days war does confirm the Russian provocation was a the trigger of war, if not the main trigger. Even, a Soviet fabricated report of Israeli divisions massing near the Syrian border was thrown at the PM by the Soviet ambassador.
One point though, based on what I have read Soviet and indeed the American completely wrote off the possiblity of Soviet landing and possibility of conventional naval attack, sense and I quote from the book Arms for Arabs "The Soviet Black Sea Fleet did not have a non-nuclear attacking force".
But whatever the Soviet intention was in this great imperial scheme of theirs, it totally misfired.
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They must have seemed to think that the Israelis were going to be pushovers. As far as I know, there was not a contingent brigade of Naval Infantry with them. Meaning that they were planning to land sailors as infantrymen to take coastal cities. This part, at least, sounds kinda farfetched, or at least wishful thinking.