Yom Kippur War
A message from 1973.
Ignoring U.S. restraints to try for victory.
The nuclear concept.
What can an army do about a warning?
Interviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger’s attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.
Nixon and Kissinger understood Israeli military power to be an asset to America, not a liability, and they formulated a strategy designed to exploit that power.
Claims that the unexpected nature of the Egyptian and Syrian attack in 1973 didn’t ultimately matter are belied by the historical evidence.
Michael Doran, a leading analyst and author of “The Hidden Calculation Behind the Yom Kippur War,” discusses his essay and the eerie resonances between 1973 and 2023.
The spirit of ’48.
Acquiescing to American restraint would have led to an Israeli defeat, and peace between Egypt and Israel might never have happened.
A rabbi’s reflections on the Yom Kippur War may bear some relevance today.
“Shock, bewilderment, a slight nausea, a sudden urge to fight back the tears that welled in my eyes.”
Clarice Lispector, anti-Semitism, and Macabéa.
It’s long been the greatest question about the war: why Israel waited to be attacked. But what if it was convinced to wait by its closest ally, the United States?