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The 1973 Arab-Israeli War - The Albatross of Decisive Victory (Paperback)
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The 1973 Arab-Israeli War - The Albatross of Decisive Victory (Paperback)
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The Six Day War of June 1967 saw the Israel Defense Force (IDF)
achieve a decisive military victory over Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
while sustaining relatively few casualties. Despite the subsequent
image of Israel as a regional military superpower, Egypt attacked
again in 1973, eventually resulting in a peace treaty that promised
to return the entire Sinai to Egypt. It is the contention of "The
1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Albatross of Decisive Victory" that the
IDF's dramatic 1967 victory unconsciously created an albatross in
the form of a belief in its own invulnerability coupled with the
belief that Egypt would perform as poorly in the next war as it had
in this one. In a spirit of overconfidence, Israel prepared to
fight its next war just as it had in 1967. The 1973 attack caught
Israel off guard, the Egyptians performed much better than
expected, and, even after the IDF recovered from its initial
stumbles, Egypt was by no means out of the game militarily. Once a
cease-fire took effect, the Israelis quickly grasped how ill
prepared their army had been for war and the resultant three weeks
of hard fighting and relatively heavy casualties. As the author
notes, "If the United States had experienced equivalent losses in
the Vietnam War, it would have suffered 200,000 American dead - a
figure four times the actual number." Given this situation,
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat quickly proposed a negotiated peace,
which a suddenly war-weary Israeli public warily accepted. Both as
an incisive narrative of the 1973 war and an analysis of the
self-deception and overconfidence that too decisive a victory can
breed, "The 1973 Arab-Israeli War" is an invaluable work of
scholarship as well as a cautionary tale for students and
practitioners of modern warfare. Orginally published in 1996: 104
p. maps. ill.
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