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North Korea vs Israel (self.whowouldwin)

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[–]sllewgh 321ポイント322ポイント  (16子コメント)

Israel has only fought short term wars because it wins fast. The Yom Kippur war featured Israel beating a coalition of all its neighbors in six days less than a month (got my wars confused), after they surprise attacked on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar- the jews were all fasting. They not only beat back the attack, they GAINED territory. Israeli intelligence had a running list of priority targets in the event of war, and because of rapid response strikes, most of the Egyptian air force never made it off the ground, even though they started it with a surprise attack.

North Korea actually sent 20 pilots to this conflict according to Wikipedia, so technically, Israel already has feats for beating NK.

This is an absolute total stomp. I think Israel could win without NK ever actually launching any kind of attack.

[–]Troppin 84ポイント85ポイント  (9子コメント)

surprise attacked on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar- the jews were all fasting.

The interesting thing about this is that it might have actually helped in one aspect of Israel's defense. The call up of reserves. They were mostly at home, not at work. They could get the call and respond to it. The roads didn't have many people on it.

[–]Tom_Bombadilll 67ポイント68ポイント  (7子コメント)

Except for the fact that Yom Kippur is Yom tov, meaning that you are not allowed to use electricity which might mean a lot of people unplug their phones etc. I would argue it is much more of a disadvantage than an advantage, if you ever fasted you would probably agree with me.

[–]vavoysh 40ポイント41ポイント  (5子コメント)

Nah, most people don't unplug the phones. In case of emergency you're allowed to break (almost) as many laws as you want, so what a lot of people will do is leave the phones on and check the caller ID. If they see that it's from a hospital or something like that, then they pick up.

[–]Tom_Bombadilll 21ポイント22ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yeah, nowadays at least. Did caller ID exist back in 73 btw?

[–]I_MAKE_USERNAMES 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

I guess everyone in Israel was completely opposed to doing any sort of work and was completley incomunicado then that's why they didn't totally fucking stomp in that war.

[–]Logically_Insane 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think anyone was claiming that. And the point still stands, attacking on Yom Kippur was a strategic advantage for the enemies of Israel.

[–]FailClaw 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Remove the hurt from your butt. It was an advantage for Israel's opponents.

[–]MrCatEater 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Very protocaller ID was invented in '68, but patents were being retrieved up until I think '75 and then the first market tests weren't even until '84. So, yes, but, Israel public for sure wouldn't have had it back then.

[–]harakeeri 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, saw a documentary about it and how they called up reserves by driving around towns and vocally calling them out, old school Paul Revere style.

[–]Sanomaly 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not really true. Anyone that's actually religious enough to be participating in Yom Kippur was likely at synagogue for the entire day, making them much more difficult to reach.

[–]google_search_expert 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

The eponymous 6 day war was 6 days, the yom kippur war was longer.

[–]sllewgh 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fixed- got my conflicts confused.

[–]KingofMerica 20ポイント21ポイント  (0子コメント)

The Six Day War was a preemptive strike by Israel where they shat on their neighbors.

The Yom Kippur war was more drawn out because their enemies attacked while their guard was down and were prepared, but the Israelis did prevail without even without their usual air superiority (since they Egyptians had excellent soviet SAMs).

[–]Madlibsluver 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

Sauce for NK sending people? That sounds interesting

[–]sllewgh 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

Like I said, just Wikipedia. I don't know much more about it, but it does sound interesting. Didn't know that until I looked for this post.