* 5 June 1967 to 10 June 1975 — Suez Canal is blocked by Egypt, following a war with Israel ; it becomes the front line during the ensuing War of Attrition and the 1973 war, remaining closed to international shipping, until general agreement was near.

Although his status as " leader of the Arabs " was badly damaged by the Israeli victory over the Arab armies in the Six-Day War, as well as Egypt's failure to win the subsequent War of Attrition against Israel, many in the general Arab population still view Nasser as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom.

Attrition was time-consuming so the duration of World War I battles often stretched to weeks and months.

The War of Attrition ( Ḥarb al-Istinzāf, Milhemet haHatashah ) was a limited war fought between Israel and Egypt from 1967 to 1970.

Egypt, which received the bulk of its arms and economic assistance from the USSR, was a troublesome client, with a reluctant Soviet Union feeling obliged to assist in both the 1967 Six-Day War ( with advisers and technicians ) and the War of Attrition ( with pilots and aircraft ) against pro-Western Israel.

Attrition was therefore used later in the battle to shift the focus away from Falkenhayn's tactical failure, rather than a goal of the battle itself.

Attrition to the enemy was easy to assert and difficult to refute, and thus may have been a convenient face-saving exercise in the wake of many indecisive battles.

It was however engaged extensively in the following War of Attrition.

During the War of Attrition after the Six Day War in 1967, the Israeli destroyer Eilat was sailing at low speed outside Port Said on 21 October, when from she was attacked by two Egyptian Komars, each firing both their missiles from inside the harbour ( they were acting as a coastal missile battery ).

Attrition in the Border Patrol was normally at 5 %.

In response to Egyptian artillery bombardments during the War of Attrition, Israel developed the fortifications into an elaborate defense system spanning along Suez Canal, with the exception of the Great Bitter Lake ( where a canal crossing was unlikely due to the width of the lake ).

As noted by an Israeli colonel shortly after the War of Attrition, " The line was created to provide military answers to two basic needs: first, to prevent the possibility of a major Egyptian assault on Sinai with the consequent creation of a bridgehead which could lead to all-out war ; and, second, to reduce as much as possible the casualties among the defending troops.

That lineup then recorded War of Attrition, which was released in March 2007.

In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the U. S .- backed Rogers Plan that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, but the plan mentioned the West Bank to be under King Hussein's authority and that was unacceptable for the more radical organizations ; the PLO, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) opposed the plan, criticized and scandalized Nasser.

He served as a Commander in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, and was wounded in the War of Attrition.

In the Yom Kippur War he was an F-4 Phantom II pilot, and in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition, he was the commander of an air combat squadron.

Abdul Munim Riad achieved military victories in the battles fought by the Egyptian armed forces during the War of Attrition, such as head battle that prevented the Israeli forces from controlling the city of Port Fouad Egyptian located on the Suez Canal where a small force of infantry was able to defend the city, and the destruction of the Israeli destroyer Eilat in the 21 October 1967.

On April 28, 1970, a group of high school seniors about to be drafted sent a letter to Prime Minister Golda Meir expressing their reservation about the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the War of Attrition and the government's failure to take steps to avoid conflict.

Nasser observing the Suez front with Egyptian officers during the War of Attrition, January 1968

During the Cold War, the army actively fought in the Suez Crisis, known in Egypt and the Arab World as the Tripartite Aggression, the North Yemen Civil War from 1962 to 1967, the 1967 Six Day War, the 1969-1970 War of Attrition, the 1973 October War, and the 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War.

* Zhenyuan Zhao, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Alex Dixon, and Neil F. Johnson " Anomalously Slow Attrition Times for Asymmetric Populations with Internal Group Dynamics ",, Physical Review Letters 103, 148701 ( 2009 ), 2 October 2009

* 1969 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

Attrition is where particles / seaload carried by the waves are worn down as they hit each other and the cliffs.

Attrition: Aspects of Command in the Peloponnesian War.

They then fought in the late 1960s War of Attrition ( against Israel ), and the 1970 Black September invasion of Jordan.

Following the Israeli conquest of Sinai, Egypt launched the War of Attrition aimed at forcing Israel to withdraw from Egyptian territory.

In January 1968, Nasser commenced the War of Attrition against Israel, ordering his forces to begin harassing Israeli positions east of the now-blockaded Suez Canal.

In 1971, he visited Israeli positions along the Suez Canal during the War of Attrition.

Attrition is the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from opposing teeth.

Attrition initially affects the enamel and, if unchecked, may proceed to the underlying dentin.

In the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), Frederick the Great improvised a " strategy of exhaustion " ( see Attrition warfare ) to hold off his opponents and conserve his Prussian forces.

Attrition and skirmishes by the US Army finally forced the return of the tribes back to Indian Territory in June 1875.

Attrition and skirmishes by the US Army finally forced the return of the tribes back to Indian Territory in June 1875.

Attrition occurs when waves causes loose pieces of rock debris ( scree ) to collide with each other, grinding and chipping each other, progressively becoming smaller, smoother and rounder.

# Defacing Web Pages: Between 1995 and 1999 Attrition. org reported 5, 000 website defacements.

Significant artists included And One, Armageddon Dildos, Bigod 20, The Neon Judgement, and Attrition.

On March 8, 1969, Nasser proclaimed the official launch of the War of Attrition, characterized by large scale shelling along the Canal, extensive aerial warfare and commando raids.

Soviet medal issued to Soviet soldiers who served in Egypt during the War of Attrition.

The label has also had a long association with Attrition, who appeared on the label's earliest compilations.

Attrition characterized his leadership years, as the party slowly declined because of electoral gerrymandering, changes to South Africa's voting laws, including the removal of the ' Coloureds ' - South Africans of mixed ancestry, who had been staunch United Party supporters-from the electoral rolls, and defections to other parties.

Israeli war ribbon signifying participation in the War of Attrition.

Attrition warfare is a military strategy in which a belligerent side attempts to win a war by wearing down its enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and matériel.

* War of Attrition, a limited war fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970

An example of the limited war is the Egypt-Israeli War of Attrition.