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Just got done watching a really good military-political documentary on the operations of the Yom Kippur War and it left me wondering, given that both Israel and the Arabs claimed victory in the conflict, who was the actual winner?
The schools of thought in a nutshell are as follows
1. Israel ultimately won the conflict because they were able to retain most of the land gained during the 1967 war - as well as pretty much crush any future hope of a military solution to reverse them on through part of the Arabs.
2. The Arabs (primarily Egypt) won the conflict because the initial successes in the Sinai invasion re-established pride in the military and set the stage for a return of the entire Sinai Peninsula only a few years later.