Editing Six-Day War (section)

=== Armies ===
The Israeli army had a total strength, including reservists, of 264,000, though this number could not be sustained during a long conflict, as the reservists were vital to civilian life.{{Sfnp|Stone|2004|p=217}}

Against Jordan's forces on the [[West Bank]], Israel deployed about 40,000 troops and 200 tanks (eight brigades).{{Sfnp|Pollack|2004|p=294}} Israeli Central Command forces consisted of five brigades. The first two were permanently stationed near [[Jerusalem]] and were the [[16th Infantry Brigade (Israel)|Jerusalem Brigade]] and the mechanized [[Harel Brigade]]. [[Mordechai Gur]]'s [[55th Paratroopers Brigade]] was summoned from the Sinai front. The 10th Armored Brigade was stationed north of the West Bank. The Israeli Northern Command comprised a division of three brigades led by Major General [[Elad Peled]] which was stationed in the [[Jezreel Valley]] to the north of the West Bank.

On the eve of the war, Egypt massed approximately 100,000 of its 160,000 troops in the Sinai, including all seven of its divisions (four infantry, two armored and one mechanized), four independent infantry brigades and four independent armored brigades. Over a third of these soldiers were veterans of Egypt's continuing intervention into the [[North Yemen Civil War]] and another third were reservists. These forces had 950 tanks, 1,100 APCs, and more than 1,000 artillery pieces.{{Sfnp|Pollack|2004|p=59}}

Syria's army had a total strength of 75,000 and was deployed along the border with Israel.{{Sfnp|Ehteshami|Hinnebusch|1997|p=76}} Professor [[David W. Lesch]] wrote that "One would be hard-pressed to find a military less prepared for war with a clearly superior foe" since Syria's army had been decimated in the months and years prior through coups and attempted coups that had resulted in a series of purges, fracturings and uprisings within the armed forces.<ref>{{harvp|Shlaim|Louis|2012|pp=86–87}}: "Syria was severely unprepared for war. Despite the bombastic and jingoistic rhetoric, the [[Baathist]] regime viewed its actions against Israel as low-level warfare that was not meant to lead to an all-out war. The months and years prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war were filled with military purges associated with actual and attempted coups that decimated and further fractured the military and party, resulting in an inexperienced officer corps as well as a deep distrust between the rank and file and officers in the army. In addition, there were uprisings by discontented elements of the Syrian population, less than satisfactory encounters with Israeli forces, and lukewarm Soviet support... One would be hard-pressed to find a military less prepared for war with a clearly superior foe."</ref>

The [[Jordanian Armed Forces]] included 11 brigades, totaling 55,000 troops.{{Sfnp|Mutawi|2002|p=42}} Nine brigades (45,000 troops, 270 tanks, 200 artillery pieces) were deployed in the [[West Bank]], including the elite armored 40th, and two in the [[Jordan Valley (Middle East)|Jordan Valley]]. They possessed sizable numbers of [[M113 Armored Personnel Carrier|M113]] APCs and were equipped with some 300 modern Western tanks, 250 of which were U.S. [[M48 Patton]]s. They also had 12 battalions of artillery, six batteries of 81&nbsp;mm and 120&nbsp;mm mortars,{{Sfnp|Segev|1967|pp=82, 175–191}} a [[paratrooper]] battalion trained in the new U.S.-built school and a new battalion of [[mechanized infantry]]. The [[Jordanian Army]] was a long-term-service, professional army, relatively well-equipped and well-trained. Israeli post-war briefings said that the Jordanian staff acted professionally, but was always left "half a step" behind by the Israeli moves. The small [[Royal Jordanian Air Force]] consisted of only 24 British-made [[Hawker Hunter]] fighters, six [[Military transport aircraft|transport aircraft]] and two helicopters. According to the Israelis, the Hawker Hunter was essentially on par with the French-built [[Dassault Mirage III]] – the IAF's best plane.{{Sfnp|Pollack|2004|pp=293–94}}

One hundred Iraqi tanks and an infantry division were readied near the Jordanian border. Two squadrons of Iraqi fighter-aircraft, Hawker Hunters and [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG 21s]], were rebased adjacent to the Jordanian border.{{Sfnp|Segev|1967|pp=82, 175–191}}

In the weeks leading up to the Six-Day War, Saudi Arabia mobilized forces for deployment to the Jordanian front. A Saudi infantry battalion entered Jordan on 6 June 1967, followed by another on the 8th. Both were based in Jordan's southernmost city, [[Ma'an]]. By 17 June, the Saudi contingent in Jordan had grown to include a single infantry brigade, a tank company, two artillery batteries, a heavy mortar company, and a maintenance and support unit. By the end of July 1967, a second tank company and a third artillery battery had been added. These forces remained in Jordan until the end of 1977, when they were recalled for re-equipment and retraining in the Karak region near the Dead Sea.<ref>{{Cite web|title=بطولات السعوديين حاضرة.. في الحروب العربية|url=https://www.okaz.com.sa/local/na/1756574|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216061810/https://www.okaz.com.sa/local/na/1756574|archive-date=16 February 2021|work=Okaz|date=17 November 2019|access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref><ref name=sauditw>{{Cite book|author=Neil Partrick|title=Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy: Conflict and Cooperation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LeiKDwAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-8577-2793-0|page=183|access-date=14 April 2022|archive-date=17 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517180330/https://books.google.com/books?id=LeiKDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=SAMAAI>{{Cite web|title=Saudi Arabian Military Activity Against Israel|url=http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=475577|work=CMU|date=May 1978|access-date=19 November 2021|archive-date=20 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120001418/http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=475577|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Arab air forces were reinforced by aircraft from Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to make up for the massive losses suffered on the first day of the war.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} They were also aided by volunteer pilots from the [[Pakistan Air Force]] acting in an independent capacity. PAF pilots like [[Saiful Azam]] shot down several Israeli planes.<ref name=pak>{{Cite web|title=Air Warriors |url=http://www.paf.gov.pk/air_warriors.html|website=Pakistan Air Force|access-date=15 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717050259/http://www.paf.gov.pk/air_warriors.html|archive-date=17 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=saif>{{Cite web|title=Eagle Biography – Saiful Azam|website=Air University|url=http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2000/azam_2000.asp|access-date=15 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812085933/http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2000/azam_2000.asp |archive-date=12 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>