For many religious Israelis, the lightning victory of the 1967 war was proof of divine intervention.

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John "Mick" Bednarek, part of Task Force Lightning in Diyala province, one of the war's major battlegrounds.

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The lightning American advance on Baghdad, beginning before the air-war proper, recovered an element of surprise that the large and ponderous deployment seemed to have forfeited.

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