Retake Mount Hermon - Campaign Series: Middle East 1948 -1985

[Mount Hermon, border Lebanon, Israel, Syria]: [H2H]:[HIS] On October 6 1973, the first day of the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian army assaulted and captured the IDF radar outpost on Mount Hermon. The Hermon outpost was considered strategically important for several reasons, such as: gathering early warning information, real-time Intelligence collection, conducting electronic warfare against ground or air attack, artillery spotting on the Damascus Plain, using the Hermon ridge and its western slopes for a strategic flanking move toward Syria, conducting operations in Syria and Lebanon and commanding Israel's main water sources. Israeli Northern Command considered it imperative to recapture the Hermon, for both moral and strategic reasons. A counter attack was planned for October 8th with parts of Golani Brigade's 51st Infantry Battalion and the 17th Infantry Battalion attached to the headquarters of the 317th Reserve Parachute Brigade, responsible for planning the operation. Lead by two tanks the force set out from Majdal al-Shams in the morning of October 8th. [ALL: NOVV][NONE][1.00]