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Most times it’s not such a good thing, but when you’re entering into in a modeling genre outside your comfort zone it can be. Especially if you deal with the dread Modelers’ ADHD like your’s truly. IDF subjects and the Yom Kippur War are something I know little about other than the fact that it happened, the Syrians and Egyptians pulled a nasty surprise on the IDF on 6 October 1973 and in the long run accomplished nothing more than getting their noses bloodied. Again. In spite of a build up of new hardware and training in its’ use from advisers sent by the Soviet Union.

Egypt successfully crossed the Suez Canal and broke through the Bar Lev line into the Sinai Peninsula only to ultimately find itself with an entire field army cut off on the far bank of the Suez Canal with the Israelis in Egypt. In the north Syrian troops were pushed out of the Golan Heights and back to within artillery range of Damascus after several days of brutal fights.

Having more questions than answers forces one to research and dig for the information to gain the ever elusive knowledge. Also, it provides inspiration for projects given the pictures uncovered in the process (with the caveat that there is always the possibility they are miscaptioned). So yes, Virginia there really are times when having more questions than answers is a good thing. Model on!