Analysis of a Military Battle

Among the heroic battles was that of Jahfal al-Mu'tasim, which

faced a Zionist ambush shaped like a pocket or a box,

and fought a nighttime battle that inflicted heavy losses on the enemy,

managing to break out of the ambush through

a heroic fighting retreat at dawn.

The heroes managed to seize four

intact Zionist tanks left by the enemy on the battlefield

during the nighttime fighting.

Sources' assessment of this battle was

that the Arabs had become pioneers of night fighting,

while the Zionists cowered in trenches and foxholes,

firing from fixed positions.

On the fifteenth day, we received another brigade from the division, the Sixth Armored Brigade.

When the Sixth Armored Brigade arrived, we had two brigades.

The Eighth Brigade had originally come from Kawaasir, so the Third Armored Division

became complete, and we became

secure and strong on the ground.

And the small tactical offensive operations against the enemy, and for the first time in its life,

the enemy abandoned its previous

methods of fighting and came to hold ground in order to defend.

and dig in, enter the trenches, and abandon nighttime work.

Because of this kind of fighting he had never seen before.

After the Third Division became complete, the situation became more stable

to some extent, and other units began arriving, the 20th Brigade and others.

Then other units kept arriving.

So they replaced this brigade.

They replaced this brigade, despite having suffered many losses,

but the losses were worthwhile, and they fulfilled their duty

and enhanced the force's,

meaning Iraq's military honor, and protected

Damascus.

They forced the enemy to change its operational,

strategic

objective into a tactical combat objective.