Six-Day War order of battle

This is the order of battle for the Six-Day War between Israeli forces and Arab forces which consisted of Syrian, Egyptian, and Jordanian military forces. The war took place on June 5–10, 1967.

Israeli Defence Forces

On full mobilisation, the Israeli Army comprised some 250,000 men of whom almost three-quarters were reservists and one-quarter conscripts. Out of its 25 brigades, nine were armoured, two were fully mechanised, and ten were infantry, some partly mechanised, as well as their paratroop brigades which also acted as elite assault troops. The brigades were assigned to six ugdas, or division-size task forces, whose composition varied according to their assigned mission and geographical area.

Minister of Defense – General Moshe Dayan

Chief of Staff – Lieutenant General Yitzhak Rabin

Northern Command

Brigadier General David Elazar

1st Golani Infantry Brigade – Colonel Yonah Efrat

2nd Infantry Brigade

3rd Infantry Brigade

37th Armoured Brigade

45th Armoured Brigade

Reinforcements:

8th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Avraham Mandler (from Southern Command)

55th Paratroop Brigade – Colonel Mordechai Gur (from June 7 onward)

Central Command

Brigadier General Uzi Narkiss

4th Reserve Infantry Brigade

5th Reserve Infantry Brigade

16th Etzioni Jerusalem Infantry Brigade

Ugda Peled (from Northern Command)

9th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Central Command)

37th Armoured Brigade

45th Armoured Brigade

Attached:

10th Harel Mechanised Brigade (from GHQ Reserve) – Colonel Uri Ben-Ari

55th Paratroop Brigade – Colonel Mordechai Gur (from Southern Command)

Southern Command

Brigadier General Yeshayahu Gavish

84th Armoured Division – Brigadier General Israel Tal

7th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Shmuel Gonen

60th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Menachem Aviram

202nd Paratroop Brigade – Colonel Rafael Eitan

Recce Task Force – Colonel Uri Baron

Granit Task Force – Lieutenant Colonel Yisrael Granit

46th Tank Battalion – Lieutenant Uri Baron

215th Artillery Regiment

31st Armoured Division – Brigadier General Avraham Yoffe

200th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Yissacher Shadmi

520th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Elhanan Sela

38th Armoured Division – Brigadier General Ariel Sharon

14th Armoured Brigade – Colonel Mordechai Zippori

99th Infantry Brigade – Colonel Yekutiel Adam

80th Paratroop Brigade – Colonel Dani Matt

214th Artillery Regiment

226th Tank Batalion

35th Paratroop Brigade – Colonel Aharon Davidi

40th Artillery Battalion

11th Infantry Brigade – Colonel Yehuda Reshef

Syrian Army

The Syrian Army numbered 63,000. The field fortifications were held by eight brigades of which five were infantry brigades, each with an attached tank battalion of T-34/85s and SU-100 self-propelled guns, holding the first two lines and three armoured and mechanised brigades along and behind the third line. In addition there were four reserve infantry brigades deployed between Damascus and Kuneitra, as well as seven battalions of the National Guard militia that were deployed to bolster the defensive lines. These forces were divided into 'Group Brigades' in Syrian terminology although this was an administrative convenience rather than a tactical deployment.

Minister of Defense – Hafez al-Assad

Army Chief of Staff – Ahmad Suwaydani

12th Group Brigade

11th Infantry Brigade

132nd Reserve Infantry Brigade

80th Reserve Infantry Brigade

44th Armoured Brigade

35th Group Brigade

8th Infantry Brigade

19th Infantry Brigade

32nd Infantry Brigade

17th Mechanised Infantry Brigade

42nd Group Brigade

25th Infantry Brigade

50th Reserve Infantry Brigade

60th Reserve Infantry Brigade

14th Armoured Brigade

Royal Jordanian Army

The 55,000-man Jordanian Army was divided into the Eastern and Western commands, with the division marked by the Jordan River. In June 1967, the bulk of the Jordanian forces was deployed in the West Bank in two main areas: in Samaria in the north, based in and around the towns of Jenin and Nablus and in the south in the area from Ramallah through Jerusalem down to Hebron.

Chief of Staff – Amer Khammash

Western Command

1st 'Princess Alia' Infantry Brigade

2nd 'Hashimi' Infantry Brigade

3rd 'King Talal' Infantry Brigade

6th 'Qadisiya' Infantry Brigade

25th 'Khalid Ibn Walid' Infantry Brigade

27th 'Imam Ali' Infantry Brigade

29th 'Hittin' Infantry Brigade

40th Armoured Brigade

60th Armoured Brigade

Eastern Command

Hussein Ali Infantry Brigade

Yarmouk Infantry Brigade

Royal Guard Brigade

Egyptian Army

With an official strength of 210,000 men in June 1967, the Egyptian Army had some 100,000 troops in the Sinai Peninsula and approximately 50,000 in Yemen with the remainder stationed to the west of the Suez Canal to protect Cairo. The Sinai Front Command comprised some six divisions with 930 tanks, 200 assault guns, and 900 artillery pieces.

UAR Commander-in-Chief – Field Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer

Minister of Defense – Shams Badran

Army Chief of Staff – Mohamed Fawzi

Air Force Commander-in-Chief – Mohamed Sedky Mahmoud

Sinai Front Command – General Abd el Mushin Murtagi

Field commander – Lieutenant General Sallah el din Mohsen

2nd Infantry Division – Major General Sadi Naguib

3rd Infantry Division – Major General Osman Nasser

4th Armoured Division – Major General Sidki el Ghoul

Task Force Shazli – Major General Saad el-Shazly

6th Mechanised Division – Major General Abd el Kader Hassan

7th Infantry Division – Major General Abd el Aziz Soliman

20th PLA Division Gaza – Major General Mohammed Abd el Moneim Hasni

Infantry Brigade (Ind) – Brigadier Mohammed Abd el Moneim Khalil

1st Armoured Brigade – Brigadier Hussein Abd el Nataf

125th Armoured Brigade – Brigadier Ahmed El-Naby