Word: battlefield
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...week's end the real question facing Egypt and the Arab world was the quality of those decisions. Did Sadat have a plan for stemming the Israeli advance from the canal? Would his people forgive him if, in the end, Egypt's armies were to suffer another battlefield defeat? No one could say. But for the moment he was his nation's hero and Nasser's rightful heir...
...Israeli breakthrough on the Golan forced battlefield decisions on both sides. For the Syrians, the choice was between falling back to defend Damascus or standing fast on the El Quneitra-Damascus road in an effort to halt the Israelis. For the Israelis, the decision was how far they should try to move along the road to Damascus. By week's end at least one Israeli force had penetrated more than ten miles beyond the cease-fire line set in 1967; but other Israeli troops were still meeting stiff resistance at the cease-fire lines. The Syrians were standing...
...early battlefield reports streaming from the fronts into the military headquarters in Egypt and Syria seemed too good to be true: light Israeli resistance at the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights; Israeli reserves not mobilized; Israel's general population relaxed and praying in the synagogues. Yet the reports were accurate. The Arabs had accomplished what conventional wisdom had long insisted was nearly impossible - a surprise attack on Israel...
...issue of deep personal concern. I for one was astounded that a meeting called to describe and evaluate the current military round in the Arab-Israel conflict was transformed into a jingoistic exercise, with protestations by several Jewish members of faculty of their frustration in not being on the battlefield as the measure of the speakers' value to the discussion...
...while the Faculty debated ROTC, protest against the Vietnam war dramatized the University's role in supporting the U.S. military. Napalm was invented in Harvard's labs. Much of the anti-personnel technology used on the electronic battlefield was developed from projects conducted by Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics...