WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Attrition warfare is the term used to describe the sustained process of wearing down an opponent so as to force their physical collapse through continuous losses in personnel, equipment and supplies or to wear them down to such an extent that their will to fight collapses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Attrition warfare represents an attempt to grind down an opponent’s ability to make war by destroying their military resources by any means including guerrilla warfare, people’s war, scorched earth and all kind of battles apart from a decisive battle.

Detailed explanation-3: -The War of Attrition (Hebrew: , ‘Milhemet HaHatasha’) was a war between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The war officially started on July 1967, and ended in August 1970.

Detailed explanation-4: -The conflict, launched by Egypt, was meant to wear down Israel by means of a long engagement and so provide Egypt with the opportunity to dislodge Israeli forces from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had seized from Egypt in the Six-Day (June) War of 1967.

Detailed explanation-5: -During a three-year period, Israel and Egypt fought a “War of Attrition” along the Suez Canal. In the course of the war over 500 Israelis were killed. On October 21 1967, the Israeli destroyer “Eilat” was destroyed by an Egyptian surface-to-surface missile. Forty-seven Israeli sailors were killed.

Detailed explanation-6: -War of attrition worldwide: Guadalcanal-Stalingrad-North Africa. Three of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of World War II were conducted between August 1942 and the end of February 1943. The Russians fought a life and death war of attrition with the German army at Stalingrad.