Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yom Kippur War" in English language version.
Kissinger and Nixon consistently warned Israel that she must not be responsible for initiating a Middle East war
It was in France on 20 May 1973. ... We had a formal meeting on the upper floor and, after lunch, I walked with Ismail in the garden in the spring sunshine. In these beautiful ... Ismail remained cool to my scheme of separating sovereignty and security. He called this 'diluted sovereignty,' but said he would check with Sadat and let me know. I never heard from him. The American official who had found the meeting place reported to me that after I left, Ismail, visibly dispirited and glum, had sat alone in the garden for a long time contemplating the waterfall. ... For Ismail knew that Sadat was determined on war. Only an American guarantee that we would fulfill the entire Arab program in a brief time could have dissuaded him.
By putting a territorial noose around the Third army and sitting about sixty miles from Cairo, Israeli forces had open terrain and no opposition to move on Cairo; had they done so Sadat's rule might have ended.
(p. 6) "For most Egyptians the war is remembered as an unquestionable victory—militarily as well as politically ... The fact that the war ended with Israeli troops stationed in the outskirts of Cairo and in complete encirclement of the Egyptian third army has not dampened the jubilant commemoration of the war in Egypt." (p. 11) "Ultimately, the conflict provided a military victory for Israel, but it is remembered as 'the earthquake' or 'the blunder'"
the Arab has suffered repeated military defeats at the hand of Israel in 1956, 1967, and 1973
(p. 184) "Yom Kippur War ... its final outcome was, without doubt, a military victory ... " (p. 185) " ... in October 1973, that despite Israel's military victory"
The themes of defeat and victory played important roles in Sadat's famous pursuit of peace with Israel. In Cairo, a bridge and statues are among the symbols that celebrate the "October 6 victory." What was that victory? It turned out to be what the rest of the world called the "Yom Kippur War," the war between Egypt and Israel in 1973. The reason that no one else referred to the war as a "victory" was that most historians regarded it as a stalemate rather than a clear triumph for either side.
The Camp David Agreements should be understood against the background of the Yom Kippur War and its political, military, and economic implications. The Israeli military achievements on the battlefield, balanced by the Egyptian psychological victory in political terms, created a complex situation of military stalemate and political ripeness for striking a diplomatic bargain between the parties.
In 1973, Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab states in the Yom Kippur War (Ramadan War). The conflict ended in a military stalemate.
Although Moscow managed against considerable odds to salvage from the Yom Kippur war a military stalemate and a moral victory for the Arabs, it suffered almost total collapse of its influence in Egypt shortly thereafter.
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