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giving the Egyptians control of 20 miles or more of the airspace on our

there were nearly 100 missile sites in the “prohibited”

the Egyptians won. Under the terms of the truce

which was more than the main guns on our tanks. Yet

allowing a single soldier to fire wire-guided missiles. Their range was

I would sometimes see the hulk of an Israeli tank which

allied with an absolute confidence in his own judgment and

with the aim of deploying us against the

even tank maintenance. We were taught how to

in the spring of 1971. With his agreement

there now seemed every possibility that I would be chosen

and a series of other operations I helped run

closer to where we’d installed the equipment

we managed to finish in slightly less than four. But we

the one who’d told me of how Rabin was chain-smoking and biting

20 miles back from the Suez Canal. When I radioed in to tell him

part of the intelligence base our military

by the time we installed the communications

the part of the operation that had been causing the

which meant we could return in a few months and have