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Tag: Yom Kippur War

Was Groupthink Responsible for Israel’s Surprise in the 1973 War, Or Is That Just Another Faulty Assumption?

Prime Minister Golda Meir, accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Photo credit: REUTERS

With the approach of the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, it’s time to revisit one of its ongoing scandals in Israel, the claim that the government’s surprise at the start of the war was caused by a set of assumptions, based on intelligence assessments, called in Hebrew the “konzepzia.” >> Inside […]

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