Oct 8, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
The U.S. Air Force shipped 22,395 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies to Israel aboard C-141 Starlifters and C-5 Galaxies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. After the first week of battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, it was clear to many observers that...
Oct 6, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
Forty-one years ago today, the deadliest Arab-Israeli military conflict commenced with a surprise attack, coordinated mainly by Egypt and Syria, on the Israeli occupied territories in Suez and the Golan Heights. The Yom Kippur War would instantly go down in infamy as...
Sep 25, 1969 | Middle East, Nixon Speeches, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/s-0vxuV00gw] September 25, 1969: President Nixon spoke on the South Lawn at the White House where Prime Minister Golda Meir was given a formal welcome with full military honors.