Looking at the political, military and intelligence components of the Yom Kippur War, this work offers interpretations of Israel's conflict with the Arabs.
By looking at the political, military and intelligence components of the Yom Kippur War - and making use of unpublished materials, including recently declassified portions of the Agranat Commission that inquired into the intelligence failure - this work offers interpretations of Israel's conflict with the Arabs. The contributors, Israeli academics, some of them involved in the war, make a contribution to the understanding of this chapter in Israel's history.