PPT Slide
Nevertheless, this doesn't change the fact that it wasn't the Eqyptian intention to have Israel cross the Suez and surround their Army. This gave Israel a fairly strong bargaining position and made it very clear in the mind of Egyptian leaders that the Israelis could be in Cairo in a matter of hours. Although all Egyptians are rightfully proud of the initial attack they don't like to talk about the end result. Let’s not forget that Syria intended to go all the way to Haifa and Tel Aviv to exterminate the nation of Israel if possible--a simultaneous two “MTW” type scenario that we seem today to want to dismiss as an enemy attack option in order to cut defense budgets. The Israelis fought a two front war of extreme violence, beginning with surprise attacks on both fronts and ending with both aggressor countries seeing their capitols in danger. The Egyptian pinning attack didn't succeed as well as hoped and this is what forced the change in plans. The limited Egyptian attack outside of the ADA umbrella didn't cause that umbrella to go away-it remained in place and the Israelis used combined-arms to crack it.A static defense wouldn’t have changed the outcome since Israel was planning to attack to decide the issue (as per their doctrine).
“What ifs” are part of war.