The 1967 war allowed Israel to occupy the Sinai, all of Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. It placed Egyptian forces on the west bank of the Suez, far from Israel, and pushed the Jordanians out of artillery range of the Israeli heartland. It pushed Syria out of artillery range as well. This created the strategic depth Israel required, yet it set the stage for the most serious military crisis in Israeli history, beginning with an intelligence failure in 1973. Syria and Egypt managed to partially coordinate an assault on Israel without Israeli intelligence interpreting the intelligence it was receiving. This intelligence failure opened the door to Israel's other vulnerability — its dependence on foreign powers for resupply. Indeed, perhaps Israel's greatest miscalculation was the amount of artillery shells it would need to fight the war; the amount required vastly outstripped expectations. Such a seemingly minor thing created a massive dependency on the United States, allowing the United States to shape the conclusion of the war to its own ends so that Israel's military victory ultimately evolved into a political retreat in the Sinai.
