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Section sizes

Section size for Yom Kippur War (64 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	21,462	21,462
Background	111	24,698
Arab–Israeli conflict	11,541	11,541
Lead up to the war	9,349	9,349
Israeli preparation	3,697	3,697
Sinai front	3,845	62,823
Egyptian attack	12,138	12,138
Failed Israeli counter-attack	4,009	4,009
Temporary stabilization	1,869	1,869
Battle of the Sinai	3,795	3,795
Israeli breakthrough and crossing of the Suez Canal	5,165	5,165
Securing the bridgehead	1,693	1,693
Egyptian response to the Israeli crossing	4,141	4,141
Israeli forces across the Suez	9,500	9,500
The ceasefire and further battles	4,106	4,106
Battle of Suez	1,278	1,278
Egypt's trapped Third Army	5,563	5,563
Post-war battles	2,840	2,840
Final situation on the Egyptian front	2,881	2,881
Golan front	17	43,623
Initial Syrian attacks	8,340	8,340
Defense of the Quneitra Gap	3,778	3,778
Syrian breakthrough in the Southern Golan	5,955	5,955
Israeli strategic response	5,856	5,856
Collapse of the Israeli 188th Armored Brigade	6,663	6,663
Israel retakes the southern Golan	2,122	2,122
Israeli advance towards Damascus	3,262	3,262
Arab military intervention	4,674	4,674
Northern front de-escalation	1,480	1,480
Jordanian participation	1,476	1,476
Naval operations	8,202	9,720
U.S.–Soviet naval standoff	1,518	1,518
Participation by other states	35	37,618
U.S. intelligence efforts	1,570	1,570
U.S. aid to Israel	13,714	13,714
Aid to Egypt and Syria	30	21,142
Soviet supplies	2,966	2,966
Soviet active aid	3,217	3,217
Soviet intervention threat	6,027	6,027
Other countries	8,902	8,902
Palestinian attacks from Lebanese territory	1,157	1,157
UN-backed ceasefire	2,315	2,315
Disengagement	3,360	3,360
Reactions	14	9,032
Response in Israel	4,334	4,334
Response in Egypt	1,490	1,490
Response in Syria	1,743	1,743
Response in the Soviet Union	772	772
Arab oil embargo	679	679
Aftermath	14	7,276
Egyptian–Israeli disengagement agreement	901	901
Egyptian–Israeli Camp David Accords	2,745	2,745
U.S. military doctrine	3,616	3,616
Casualties	4,912	4,912
Atrocities	16	8,256
Syrian atrocities	4,939	4,939
Egyptian atrocities	3,301	3,301
Weaponry	4,659	4,659
See also	1,313	1,313
References	15	16,845
Notes	25	25
Citations	5,639	5,639
Bibliography	11,166	11,166
External links	1,933	1,933
Total	259,845	259,845

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[Rabin1996p215-1] Yitzhak Rabin (1996). The Rabin Memoirs. University of California Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-520-20766-0. security versus sovereignty"...Israel would have to accept Egyptian sovereignty over all the Sinai, while Egypt ,in turn, would have to accept Israeli military presence in certain [Sinai] strategic positions.

[Kumaraswamy2013p105-2] P.R. Kumaraswamy (11 January 2013). Revisiting the Yom Kippur War. Routledge. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-136-32895-4.

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