The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967–1973. The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

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ISABELLA GINOR GIDEON REMEZ The Soviet–Israeli War, 1967– The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Eg yptian-Israeli Conflict A ...

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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Foreword xiii I. Un-Rewriting History xiii II. The Tyranny of Vested-Interest S ...

CONTENTS THE SOVIET–ISRAELI WAR, 1967– Return of the Foxbats viii Trial Balloons from Both Sides Flexing Muscles whil ...

ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book was mostly researched and written during our continuing tenure as associ- ate fellows of the Harry ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x Gamma, Hermann Eilts, Adi Frimark, Nicholas Hagger, Norman Kass, Yury Khripunkov, Jacob Kipp, Konstantin Kikoi ...

xi ABBREVIATIONS AC Agranat Commission AFP Agence France-Presse AP Associated Press APR (Agranat Commission) Additional Partial ...

ABBREVIATIONS xii MENA Middle East News Agency (Eg yptian, “semi-official”) MER Middle East Record MI Israeli [IDF] Military Int ...

xiii FOREWORD I. UN-REWRITING HISTORY A. The hottest front of the Cold War It was clear that we were actually fighting against R ...

FOREWORD xiv a violent but monotonous routine, and the three years after this war’s ostensible end with the ceasefire of August ...

FOREWORD xv terland, which began on 7 January 1970. Specifically, the Soviet intervention was requested by Nasser during an urge ...

FOREWORD xvi Time and again, we encountered the opposite: Soviet motivation to reverse the 1967 debacle was just as strong as th ...

FOREWORD xvii C. Obviating the need for harmonization It may ... be better to disregard those patterns of behavior which Western ...

FOREWORD xviii ture. To cite one telling example: in the 1967 crisis, when the hotline to Washington was first used, it was Prem ...

FOREWORD xix But it has never been our intent to accuse our predecessors of such flaws. On the con- trary, the bulk of their res ...