Yom Kippur War
See foreign involvement Commanders and leaders
Golda Meir Moshe Dayan David Elazar Israel Tal Shmuel Gonen Yitzhak Hofi Binyamin Peled Haim Bar-Lev Albert Mandler
† Ariel Sharon
Anwar Sadat Hafez al-Assad Ahmad Ismail Ali Mustafa Tlass Saad El Shazly Yusuf Shakkour Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy Ali Aslan Omar Abrash
† Strength 375,000[14]–415,000 troops, 1,700 tanks,[15] 3,000 armored carriers, 945 artillery units,[16] 440 combat aircraft
Egypt: 650,000[14]–800,000[17] troops 1,700 tanks [18] 2,400 armored carriers 1,120 artillery units[16] 400 combat aircraft 140 helicopters[19] 104 Navy vessels 150 surface to air missile batteries [20]
Syria: 150,000[14] troops 1,200 tanks 800–900 armored carriers 600 artillery units[16][21][22]
Expeditionary Forces*: 100,000 troops[14] 500–670 tanks[23][24] 700 armored carriers[23]
Cuba: 1,500[11]–4,000[25] troops
Kuwait: 3,000...