Re:not surprising (Score 1)

Hey Doc, It's pretty interesting stuff. I'm sorry if i wasn't clear on point two.

Initially the Isreali intel guys figured the Arabs would never be able to coordinate enough to take advantage of their numerical advantages.

But as Yom Kippur approached, the intel guys definitely knew something was up. They figured an attack was coming. They didnt know the hour. A double agent, who the Israeli's called "the in-law" told them it would be in the afternoon, when it was a few hours earlier.

I really still don't understand why Dayan told Meir to humor King Hussein, instead of listening to him. After all, she could have used the opportunity to call up the reserves, and it would have made them look even better, fewer Israeli casualties those first few days. And no-one would have to suffer through Dayans lament about the end of the third temple.

I guess Moshe Dayan figured he would scramble everyone after they were finished with the rites of Yom-Kippur.

I guess this is one of those times, when the military-intellegence guys relied too heavily on one intellegence asset (who was Nasser's In-Law I believe) and got bit for it.