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Article: Technology and the Yom Kippur War.(Commentary & Reply)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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To the Editor:
With regard to Robert S. Bolia's article, "Overreliance on Technology in Warfare: The Yom Kippur War as a Case Study" (Parameters, Summer 2004), I agree with the author that Israeli doctrinal errors led to their initial losses in the Yom Kippur War and that their ability to overcome these deficiencies soon enough to rally was due to the quality of their tactical leaders and the aggressiveness of their unit tactics. I cannot agree, however that their initial surprise at the attacks was due to any overreliance on technology; rather, their initial surprise was based on several non-technological factors:
* Their belief in their own ...