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Chinese Farm: Episode 12 — Operation Stouthearted
Men Operation Stouthearted Men was Israel’s high-risk plan to cross the Suez Canal at Deversoir and turn the Egyptian bridgeheads from behind. The operation required a...
Chinese Farm: Episode 13 — Night of 15 October
The night of 15 October 1973 was the opening movement of Israel’s countercrossing at Deversoir. Armored columns, paratroopers, engineers, and bridge convoys pushed thr...
Chinese Farm: Episode 14 — Boats in the Dark
Before Israeli tanks could cross the Suez Canal, Danny Matt’s paratroopers had to slip across in rubber boats and rafts. The west-bank lodgment near Deversoir began wi...
Chinese Farm: Episode 15 — The Chinese Farm
The Chinese Farm became the bloodiest centerpiece of the Israeli Suez Canal counteroffensive. Despite its misleading name, the site was an Egyptian agricultural resear...
Chinese Farm: Episode 16 — Lexicon, Tirtur, Akavish
Lexicon, Tirtur, and Akavish were road names that became central to the battle for the Chinese Farm corridor. These routes east of the Suez Canal carried tanks, paratr...
Chinese Farm: Episode 17 — The 35th Paratroopers
The 35th Paratroopers were thrown into the Chinese Farm corridor under extreme pressure, tasked with clearing entrenched Egyptian positions in darkness, confusion, and...
Chinese Farm: Episode 18 — Bridges Under Fire
The Israeli crossing at Deversoir could not become decisive until real bridges reached the Suez Canal. Rubber boats had established a foothold, but tanks, artillery, f...
Chinese Farm: Episode 19 — 17 October: The Counterattack
On 17 October 1973, Egyptian forces counterattacked to cut the Israeli penetration at Deversoir before the bridgehead could grow. The crossing was still vulnerable: tr...
Chinese Farm: Episode 20 — Into Africa
Once Israeli tanks crossed the Suez Canal in strength, the war entered a new phase on the west bank. Avraham Adan’s division moved into Egypt proper, shifting the camp...
Chinese Farm: Episode 21 — North to Ismailia
Ariel Sharon’s drive north toward Ismailia showed that not every breakthrough leads to a clean collapse. After the Deversoir crossing, Israeli forces hoped to threaten...
Chinese Farm: Episode 22 — South to Suez
Avraham Adan’s drive south from Deversoir turned the Israeli countercrossing into a direct threat to the Egyptian Third Army. Moving along the west bank toward Suez, I...
Chinese Farm: Episode 23 — Suez City
The battle for Suez City on 24 October 1973 was a sobering end to Israeli armored momentum. After driving south on the west bank and threatening the Egyptian Third Arm...
Chinese Farm: Episode 24 — Resolution 338
United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 called for a ceasefire on 22 October 1973, but around the Suez Canal the guns did not simply fall silent. Israeli armor ...
Chinese Farm: Episode 25 — The Third Army Crisis
The encirclement of Egypt’s Third Army turned the end of the Yom Kippur War into a superpower crisis. Israeli forces west of the Suez Canal had cut or threatened the s...
Chinese Farm: Episode 26 — Why the Crossing Mattered
The final episode weighs the full meaning of Chinese Farm and the Suez Canal counteroffensive. Egypt’s opening crossing was a strategic and political success that shat...
73 Easting: Episode 1 — August 2, 1990
Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, set the Gulf War in motion and returned large-scale armored warfare to the center of world affairs. This opening...
73 Easting: Episode 2 — Desert Shield
Desert Shield was the tense race to protect Saudi Arabia before Iraqi armor could turn Kuwait’s conquest into a wider Gulf disaster. This episode follows the rapid coa...
73 Easting: Episode 3 — Bush Sends VII Corps
The decision to send VII Corps from Europe transformed the Gulf crisis from a defensive standoff into preparation for a major armored offensive. This episode explains ...
73 Easting: Episode 4 — Move a Corps
Moving VII Corps was one of the great logistical achievements behind Desert Storm’s armored victory. This episode follows the transformation of a U.S. Army corps in Ge...
73 Easting: Episode 5 — The Hail Mary
The Hail Mary was the bold campaign design that turned Desert Storm from a frontal assault into a sweeping armored envelopment. Coalition forces fixed Iraqi attention ...
