Revisiting the Yom Kippur War : introduction / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- Israel's 1973 intelligence failure / Uri Bar-Joseph -- The 1973 Arab War coalition : aims, coherence, and gain-distribution / Avraham Sela -- Operational limitations of reserve forces : the lessons of the 1973 war / Stuart A. Cohen -- The Yom Kippur War : diplomacy of war and peace / Simcha Dinitz -- The Soviet Union and the Yom Kippur War / Galia Golan -- From crisis to change : the Israeli political elites and the 1973 war / Gabriel Sheffer -- The domestic fallout of the Yom Kippur War / Susan Hattis Rolef -- Perception, image formation and coping in the pre-crisis stage of the Yom Kippur War / Gabriella Heichal -- The Air Force and the Yom Kippur War : new lessons / Shmuel L. Gordon.