Operation Badr order of battle


This is the order of battle for Operation Badr, an Egyptian military operation that initiated the Yom Kippur War against Israel along the Suez Canal in the Sinai on October 6, 1973. As neither belligerent has released an official order of battle, this list remains incomplete and largely conjectural. An asterisk indicates Egyptian units that participated in the operation.
The Sa'iqa were Egyptian commando forces.

[Egyptian Army]

General Headquarters :
Commander in Chief - Colonel General Ahmad Ismail Ali
Chief of Staff - Lieutenant General Saad El Shazly
Chief of Operations - Lieutenant General Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy
Engineer-in-Chief - Major General Gamal Mohamed Aly
Chief of Military Intelligence - Major General Ibrahim Fouad Nassar
Most sources use Dupuy's commando brigade designations: 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, and 134. But Dani Asher clearly defines six commando groups. Each group contained 3 to 5 commando battalions totalling 24 battalions. He doesn't identify the groups, but from Arab sources, the following designations are available: 39, 127, 129, 136, 139, and 145.

[Israeli Defense Force]

Minister of Defense - Lt Gen Moshe Dayan
Chief of Staff - Lt Gen David Elazar
Deputy Chief of Staff - Maj Gen Israel Tal
Head of Operations - Maj Gen Abraham Tamir
Head of Intelligence - Maj Gen Eli Zeira
Southern Command: Maj. Gen. Shmuel Gonen
+Mechanised Infantry and Paratroop support
+Mechanised Infantry and Paratroop support including: 35th Paratroop Brigade - Col Uzi Yairi
+Mechanized Infantry units

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