All Episodes
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Golan Heights: Episode 18 — Seven Tanks
Seven Tanks follows Avigdor Kahalani during one of the most desperate moments in the northern Golan battle, when his immediate force had been reduced to only a handful...
Golan Heights: Episode 19 — 9 October Turns
By 9 October, the Golan battle had endured three days of shock, near-collapse, and attrition, but the northern front was beginning to turn. Syrian momentum in the Vall...
Golan Heights: Episode 20 — Reserves Arrive
The arrival of Israeli reserves was one of the decisive mechanisms of the Golan campaign. The forward defenders had fought not simply to hold ridges and strongpoints, ...
Golan Heights: Episode 21 — Back to the Purple Line
Back to the Purple Line marks the moment when Israeli forces shifted from desperate defense to battlefield recovery. After the Syrian offensive lost momentum and reser...
Golan Heights: Episode 22 — Into Syria
Once the Golan Heights had been held and the Purple Line restored, Israeli forces crossed into Syrian territory and transformed the northern war from defense into offe...
Golan Heights: Episode 23 — The Road to Damascus
The Israeli advance toward Damascus turned battlefield recovery into strategic pressure. This episode examines the military and political meaning of Israeli armor movi...
Golan Heights: Episode 24 — Resolution 338
Resolution 338 brings the Golan campaign into the world of diplomacy, ceasefire pressure, and battlefield mistrust. Adopted by the UN Security Council on 22 October 19...
Golan Heights: Episode 25 — The Battle That Changed Doctrine
The Golan Heights campaign became one of the most studied armored battles of the modern era. Military analysts, especially in the United States, examined its lessons f...
Golan Heights: Episode 26 — Why the Golan Held
The final episode asks why the Golan Heights held when the Syrian offensive came so close to breaking the front. The answer is not legend or inevitability, but a combi...
Chinese Farm: Episode 1 — From 1967 to the Canal
The road to the Chinese Farm begins long before the night fighting of October 1973. After Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War, the Sinai Peninsula became both a strate...
Chinese Farm: Episode 2 — Sadat’s Limited War
Anwar Sadat’s strategy for the 1973 Yom Kippur War was not a reckless plan to conquer all of Sinai in one armored rush. It was a limited war designed to seize ground e...
Chinese Farm: Episode 3 — Operation Badr
Operation Badr was the dramatic opening blow of Egypt’s 6 October 1973 offensive across the Suez Canal. Massed artillery, assault boats, engineers, infantry, anti-tank...
Chinese Farm: Episode 4 — Blasting the Sand Wall
The first breakthrough of the Suez Canal campaign was not a tank charge but an engineering solution. Egyptian forces faced a massive sand rampart on the east bank, des...
Chinese Farm: Episode 5 — The Bar-Lev Line Falls
The fall of the Bar-Lev Line was one of the defining moments of the Yom Kippur War’s opening phase. Built as a chain of Israeli strongpoints and defensive positions al...
Chinese Farm: Episode 6 — Under the Missile Umbrella
Egypt’s missile umbrella changed the entire character of the Sinai battlefield in 1973. Surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft guns, radar, and command networks made I...
Chinese Farm: Episode 7 — The First Israeli Counterattack
Israel’s first counterattacks against the Egyptian bridgeheads revealed how quickly old battlefield habits can become liabilities. Israeli armored units moved toward t...
Chinese Farm: Episode 8 — Southern Command in Crisis
As reports from the canal grew worse, Israeli Southern Command faced a crisis of information, confidence, and decision-making. The Bar-Lev Line was collapsing, counter...
Chinese Farm: Episode 9 — Pressure from Damascus
The Sinai campaign cannot be understood without the Syrian front on the Chinese Farm. While Egypt held bridgeheads east of the Suez Canal, Syria’s offensive in the nor...
Chinese Farm: Episode 10 — 14 October
14 October 1973 became one of the decisive armored reversals of the Yom Kippur War. Egyptian forces pushed eastward from their canal bridgeheads, partly under pressure...
Chinese Farm: Episode 11 — The Gap at Deversoir
The gap at Deversoir became the narrow seam on which the Israeli Suez Canal counteroffensive turned. Located near the Great Bitter Lake between the Egyptian Second and...
