Paul Thabet’s Reviews > The Crossing of the Suez, Revised Edition > Status Update

No army in the world can claim that it could have done better than the Egyptians in planning, managing, and storming the Suez Canal. The decision to exploit the success was a grave mistake. Let us remember well that one of the main factors in the Egyptian plan was the recognition of the great superiority of the Israeli Air Force and its almost equal superiority in mobile armored warfare.