I saw some history channel stuff that said that Egypt and Syria, in particular, were forward deploying air assets and were putting afv's through their "fresh tracks to be ready" maintenance. There is also some suggestion that efforts were being made to up morale prior to an assault. It is, of course, every bit as probable that this was part of the ongoing posturing common to that era. The general assessments that I have read -- admittedly from sources neutral to or even supportive of Israel -- suggest that an attack was likely. Nobody can prove that one had been ordered and the various Arab states publicly asserted that they had no such intention.
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