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Eg ypt), in addition to air force instructors who also flew combat missions (as against reg-
ular Soviet squadrons in Eg ypt); Jerrold Schecter and Leona Schecter, Sacred Secrets: How
Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History, Washington, DC: Brassey’s,
2002, pp. 279–80.- An admittedly incomplete list compiled by a veterans’ website names fifty-eight fatalities,
including victims of disease and accidents. “Kniga Pamyati,” http://www.hubara-rus.ru/
heroes.html - Review of Foxbats by Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs (September–October 2007),
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2007–09–01/foxbats-over-
dimona-soviets-nuclear-gamble-six-day-war - It is, for example, treated as a connecting section between the two wars in George
W. Gawrych, The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Peace Between Eg ypt and Israel in
the 1967 and 1973 Arab–Israeli Wars, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. - A recent volume of conference proceedings (Nigel Ashton (ed.), The Cold War in the
Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers 1967–73, London: Routledge/LSE,
2007), which was aimed at refocusing attention on the subject, lists (p. 4) only three pre-
vious books devoted to the 1967–73 period, all at least fifteen years old: David Korn,
Stalemate: The War of Attrition and Great Power Diplomacy in the Middle East, Boulder,
CO: Westview, 1992; Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, The Israeli–Eg yptian War of Attrition, 1969–
1970 , New York: Columbia University Press, 1980; and Lawrence Whetten, The Canal
War: Four-Power Conflict in the Middle East, Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1974. To these should
be added the main work that concentrated on the Soviet role, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Red
Star on the Nile: The Soviet–Eg yptian Influence Relationship since the June War, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1977, as well as a previous volume of conference proceedings:
Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked (eds), From June to October: The Middle East between
1967 and 1973, Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 1978. Other studies, which appeared in
Hebrew, had little impact on international academic discourse, e.g., Dan Schueftan,
Attrition: Eg ypt’s Post-war Military Strateg y, 1967–1970, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense,
1989, and Dima Adamsky, Operation Kavkaz, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 2006. - Igor’ Plugatarev, “Pamyati ne vernuvshikhsya s kholodnoy voyny,” NVO, 25 April 2014,
http://www.ng.ru/nvo/2014–04–25/14_monuments.html - Vladimir Vinogradov, Diplomatiya: Lyudi i sobytiya, iz zapisok posla, Moscow: ROSSPEN,
1998, pp. 12–13. - Viktor Karyukin, “Kak soyuz Izrail’ nakazyval: Neizvestnye podrobnosti ob uchastii
sovetskikh voysk v arabo–izrail’skom konflikte,” Stolitsa, 8 (1992). - Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, The Road to Ramadan, London: Collins, 1975, p. 7.
- Vinogradov, Diplomatiya, pp. 7–8.
- James Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy: Political Applications of Limited Naval Force, London:
Institute for Strategic Studies, 1971, p. 153. - Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, We All Lost the Cold War, Princeton University
Press, 1994, pp. 165, 168. - Galia Golan, Soviet Policies in the Middle East: From World War II to Gorbachev, Cambridge
University Press, 1990, p. 86.