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Daniel, please read The Fifty Year War

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Submitted by Tom Davis (United States), Sep 21, 2007 at 19:10

The Fifty Year War (Norman Friedman, U.S. Naval Institute), drawing on documents made public after the fall of Communism, shows very clearly that the Soviets instigated the war up until the last minute, when certain Kremlin elements (e.g. Alexei Kosygin) got cold feet and then mixed messages were sent. Brezhnev and the Soviet military were very much in favor of the war.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
SEND IN THE NUKES. [228 words]DAVID J FEIGEROct 17, 2012 01:53199871
A Call for More Research on the Role of State-Sponsorship in Conflicts More Generally [151 words]AlexNov 5, 2007 00:18113110
Saida 1982 [150 words]UgriSep 9, 2008 03:05113110
Daniel, please read The Fifty Year War [62 words]Tom DavisSep 21, 2007 19:10109408
Hiding [57 words]David W. LincolnSep 21, 2007 10:32109377
This stuff again? [155 words]Wayne WagnerAug 29, 2007 00:25107154
Of course this is not news! [47 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 06:56107154
The inability of the world to write about any event which exonerates Israel. [175 words]Mladen AndrijasevicAug 27, 2007 02:03107040
Dimona libel [91 words]jacob CH.Aug 28, 2007 12:38107040
Russian denial [92 words]Rebecca MouldsAug 25, 2007 17:54106974
1The lie is compounded [214 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:34106970
The FOXBAT mission doesn't imply the Soviets instigated the 1967 war [206 words]Charles MartelAug 24, 2007 11:45106902
RTWT [35 words]Brian HAug 24, 2007 17:50106902
1Martel, you do not realize [202 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDAug 25, 2007 14:46106902
None of this implies the Soviets instigated the 1967 war to overfly Dimona [342 words]Charles MartelAug 27, 2007 11:21106902
Of course not! They overflew Dimona prior the 1967 war. [121 words]MosheSep 2, 2007 07:34106902
That is a different story, and plausible [133 words]Charles MartelSep 25, 2007 17:21106902
This was the story from its beginning, and as at last you correctly admitted: It is indeed plausible. [24 words]MosheOct 8, 2007 04:21106902
"Plausible" is a pretty weak statement, and I'm not blaming Israel for 1967 war [344 words]Charles Martel (the baffled)Nov 5, 2007 12:52106902

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