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Ahmad Ismail Ali (Arabic: أحمد إسماعيل علي‎) (14 October 1917 – 26 December 1974) was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt’s army and minister of war during the October War of 1973 and is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal code-named Operation Badr.

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battle
Six-Day War, North African Campaign, Western Desert Campaign, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Suez Crisis, World War II, Yom Kippur War
birth date
1917-10-14
birth place
Egypt
death date
1974-12-26
military branch
Egyptian Army
military command
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
military rank
Field marshal
order in office
Minister of Defence of Egypt, Director ot the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate
president
Anwar Sadat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muhammad Naguib
service end year
1974-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
service start year
1938-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
successor
Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy, Karim_El-Leithy

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