Yom Kippur War rewritten!

[John Kettler]

Then-Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Vinogradov's file, evidently a memo draft to the Politbureau, makes the word "bombshell" seem grotesquely inadequate. What he describes may well unhinge readers steeped in the story of the Yom Kippur War, its run-up and aftermath. Sure did a number on my head.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/22/what-really-happened-in-the-yom-kippur-war/

The Vinogradov shocker is particularly interesting in light of something which surfaced when the Soviet Union collapsed: ironclad proof of a highly successful Soviet/Egyptian strategic deception before the 1973 War began.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/forty-years-later-sovietarab-secrets-of-yom-kippur-war-revealed/

In turn, Brezhnev's scathing riposte (p. 2 of second link) speaks directly to what former Tk Co and MRC CO Suvorov/Rezun described in The "Liberators" based on firsthand experience and direct reports from his fellow officers: the stripping of the Soviet Army's frontline combat weaponry to provide the Egyptians with everything they needed to defeat Israel. Because Sadat wanted a war.

"After the war, Brezhnev discussed re-establishing relations with Israel. When he was told that this would make the Arabs upset, he responded:

They should go f— themselves! We’ve been offering them a reasonable method for many years, but no — they wanted a war. Okay, as you please! We gave them the equipment, the most modern one, unseen even in Vietnam."

Regards,

John Kettler

[Michael Emrys]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/22/what-really-happened-in-the-yom-kippur-war/

I didn't find this especially credible. It may have been intended as part of a Soviet disinformation campaign but was never released. For instance, as has been known for decades the reason the Egyptian army did not advance beyond its original bridgehead was that to do so would have put them beyond SAM coverage and exposed them to the very efficient Israeli airforce. Proof of which came when they did in fact try a further advance late in the war in an attempt to reduce pressure on the beleaguered Syrians.

If not out and out disinformation, this paper is the result of the wildest speculation.

Michael

[John Kettler]

Michael Emrys,

 

Which one, please?

 

Regards,

 

John Kettler

[LukeFF]

(Yawn)