Ahmad Ismail Ali

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Ahmad Ismail Ali أحمد إسماعيل علي
Minister of Defence of Egypt
In office 1972–1974
President	Anwar El-Sadat
Preceded by	Mohammed Ahmed Sadek
Succeeded by	Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy
Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate
In office 1971–1972
President	Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by	Ahmad Kamel
Succeeded by	Karim El-Leithy
Personal details
Born	(1917-10-14)14 October 1917 Cairo, Egypt
Died	25 December 1974(1974-12-25) (aged 57) London, United Kingdom
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Egypt  United Arab Republic  Egypt
Branch/service	Egyptian Army
Years of service	1938–1974
Rank	Field Marshal
Unit	16th Infantry
Commands	Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Battles/wars	Second World War North African campaign Western Desert campaign 1948 Arab–Israeli War Suez Crisis Six-Day War Yom Kippur War

Field Marshal Ahmad Ismail Ali (Arabic: أحمد إسماعيل علي) (14 October 1917 – 25 December 1974)^[1] was an Egyptian senior military officer who was Egypt's minister of war during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal, code-named Operation Badr.

He graduated from the Military Academy in 1938 and was a colleague of both the late President Anwar Sadat and President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Academy. After graduating with the rank of second lieutenant, he joined the infantry and served in the Second World War and fought in the First Arab-Israeli War, the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War. In 1969, he became the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces and then was dismissed by Nasser because of the famous Zafarana incident. Then under President Sadat returned him to the service as head of the General Intelligence, then he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General and became Minister of War in 1972.