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The watchman fell asleep : the surprise of Yom Kippur and its sources / Uri Bar-Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bar-Joseph, Uri.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Israeli studies.
- SUNY series in Israeli studies
- Standardized Title:
- Tsofeh she-nirdam. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel-Arab War, 1973--Causes.
- Israel-Arab War, 1973.
- Military intelligence--Israel.
- Military intelligence.
- Israel--Politics and government--1967-1993.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on many formerly undisclosed intelligence and military documents, the secret protocols of discussions on the eve of the war, and interviews with relevant figures, The Watchman Fell Asleep is a compelling account of Israel's intelligence failure before the 1973 Arab attack known as the Yom Kippur War. The Hebrew version of this book was awarded the Tshetshik Prize for Strategic Studies on Israel's Security in 2001, and the Israeli Political Science Association's Best Book Award in 2002. Available here in English for the first time, Uri Bar-Joseph has crafted an authoritative explanation of the most traumatic event in Israel's stormy history and one of the biggest strategic military surprises of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- The war decision
- Planning the next war: past experience and the main problems
- The Egyptian deception plan
- The Egyptian-Syrian war coordination
- The balance of forces : the Israeli view
- The intelligence conception and its sources
- The strategic warning and its role in Israel's war plans
- The next war scenarios
- The war estimate : October 1972-August 1973
- August-September 1973
- Monday, October 1, 1973
- Tuesday, October 2, 1973
- Wednesday, October 3, 1973
- Thursday, October 4, 1973
- Friday, October 5, 1973
- Saturday, October 6, 1973, 04:00-14:00
- Surprise
- The cost of being caught unprepared
- The causes of the intelligence failure.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791483121
- 0791483126
- 9781423748717
- 1423748719
- OCLC:
- 76786300
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