You Don't Need to Win It All to Have It All: Anwar Sadat and the October War

Abstract

Until October, 1973 President Anwar Sadat was just another actor under the patronage of the Soviet Union on the regional Arab stage. Approximately one month later he was a player on the world stage of international politics, an achievement recognized by his contemporary, Henry Kissinger, as strategically brilliant. How did Sadat make the leap? What were his objectives and how did he reach them? This essay will look for answers by analyzing Sadat's circumstances and performance as he prepared for the October War using a number of the constructs of the design for national security strategy originated by Professor Terry Deibel.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA440661

Entities

People

  • Jean A. Louis

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign Aid
  • Foreign Relations
  • Information Operations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Suez Canal
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies