Israeli forces concentrated on the border with Egypt included six armored brigades, one infantry brigade, one mechanized infantry brigade, three Paratrooper brigades and 700 tanks giving a total of around 70,000 men. The Israeli plan was to surprise the Egyptian forces using a pre-emptive armored assault coinciding with the IAF striking at Egyptian airfields.
The casualties of the war, far from Israel's anticipated heavy estimates, were quite low with 338 soldiers lost on the Egyptian Front, 300 on the Jordanian Front and 141 on the Syrian Front. Egypt lost 80% of its military equipment with hundreds of tanks captured, 10,000 soldiers and 1,500 officers killed. Jordan suffered 6,000 to 7,000 personnel killed. Syria lost 2,500 dead and half of their tanks and almost all the artillery positioned in the Golan Heights were captured or destroyed. The major reasons that resulted in the Israeli Six Day War victory was the air campaign and superior tank tactics using flanking movements rather than head-on attacks utilized by the Arabs.
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