Syrian Stronghold (Revised) - Campaign Series: Middle East 1948 -1985

Northern Lebanon]: [H2H/SIDE A] [FIC] [GD]:

In 1975 Lebanon erupted into civil war. As a result, the Syrians sent troops into northern Lebanon to protect their interests and to back the Muslim factions in the civil war. The Israeli response was to strengthen its border defenses with Lebanon and to send in advisors to train the Christian militias.

Encouraged by the apparent lack of Israeli response, and the partially successful attack against Israel's nuclear facility at Ashqelon the year before, the Syrians conceived of a plan to renew their old war of attrition with Israel, this time from across the Lebanon border. Using their vast stores of FROG-7 rockets, they would move the launchers down by the border at night, launch the rockets against military and civilian targets in northern Israel, and hide during the day to avoid the expected Israeli airstrikes.

Of course, Israeli intelligence got wind of the plan, and as a result, had airstrikes sent up to destroy the FROG rockets and their launchers. However, the Syrians had an ace up their sleeve. They had constructed hundreds of dummy FROG rockets and launchers and these were what the airstrikes mostly hit. Seeing that the airstrikes were not going to do the job alone, the Israeli launched a punitive invasion into Lebanon to hunt down and destroy the real ones.

Here the Israeli 36th Ugdah assaults it old nemesis from the 1973 War, the Syrian 7th Infantry Division, which is defending a FROG-7 rocket brigade.

[This is a revision of the original scenario by Kurt Miller] [2.00]