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During the 20th century, Egypt fought in the 1967 (Six Day War) against Israel (and was embarrassingly defeated); Egypt regained it's lost honor when in 1973 (Yom Kipper War-which also started America's first "real" gasoline crisis-prices went from 29 cents a gallon to $1.00 a gallon OVER-NITE) Egypt successfully attacked Israel again, this time armed with the relatively new Sagger wire guided anti-tank missile (which successfully made it's debut in Vietnam in 1972 against M48 Patton tanks).

Israel was COMPLETELY taken off guard and suffered greatly. The US had to quickly send over M60 Combat Tanks (MBT-Main Battle tanks) and a batch of F4 Phantoms to replace Israel's losses. After about 3 months of fighting, Israel finally gained the upper hand and the Egyptians withdrew back into their territory. But the Egyptians fought a lot better this time than they did in the Six Day War; the whole world was surprised at the Egyptian's success on the battlefield...and Israel learned a valuable lesson (an old lesson); never underestimate the enemy.

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