Word: multifront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution found the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan "deployed for immediate multifront aggression, threatening the very existence of the state." The only solution was military action "to liberate Israel from the stranglehold of aggression which is progressively being tightened." The Cabinet thereafter gave the General Staff permission to fix its own time and place for a response. Less than 24 hours later, Israeli jets were on their way to destroy Arab planes on the ground in a first strike that determined the course of the entire brief...
...opening a multifront offensive, as they seemed to be doing last week, the Communists could whiplash the ARVN command by reducing the pressure in one region, only to step it up suddenly in another. The idea would be to force reserve units to move and thus to weaken vital areas. Saigon last week was all but stripped of its reserves; even the presidential palace guard was sent north to the action...