The Fifty Year War (Norman Friedman, U.S. Naval Institute), drawing on documents made public after the fall of Communism, shows very clearly that the Soviets instigated the war up until the last minute, when certain Kremlin elements (e.g. Alexei Kosygin) got cold feet and then mixed messages were sent. Brezhnev and the Soviet military were very much in favor of the war.

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A Call for More Research on the Role of State-Sponsorship in Conflicts More Generally [151 words]	Alex	Nov 5, 2007 00:18
↔ Saida 1982 [150 words]	Ugri	Sep 9, 2008 03:05
⇒ Daniel, please read The Fifty Year War [62 words]	Tom Davis	Sep 21, 2007 19:10
Hiding [57 words]	David W. Lincoln	Sep 21, 2007 10:32
This stuff again? [155 words]	Wayne Wagner	Aug 29, 2007 00:25
↔ Of course this is not news! [47 words]	Moshe	Sep 2, 2007 06:56
The inability of the world to write about any event which exonerates Israel. [175 words]	Mladen Andrijasevic	Aug 27, 2007 02:03
↔ Dimona libel [91 words]	jacob CH.	Aug 28, 2007 12:38
Russian denial [92 words]	Rebecca Moulds	Aug 25, 2007 17:54
The lie is compounded [214 words]	Yuval Brandstetter MD	Aug 25, 2007 14:34
The FOXBAT mission doesn't imply the Soviets instigated the 1967 war [206 words]	Charles Martel	Aug 24, 2007 11:45
↔ RTWT [35 words]	Brian H	Aug 24, 2007 17:50
↔ Martel, you do not realize [202 words]	Yuval Brandstetter MD	Aug 25, 2007 14:46
↔ None of this implies the Soviets instigated the 1967 war to overfly Dimona [342 words]	Charles Martel	Aug 27, 2007 11:21
↔ Of course not! They overflew Dimona prior the 1967 war. [121 words]	Moshe	Sep 2, 2007 07:34
↔ That is a different story, and plausible [133 words]	Charles Martel	Sep 25, 2007 17:21
↔ This was the story from its beginning, and as at last you correctly admitted: It is indeed plausible. [24 words]	Moshe	Oct 8, 2007 04:21
↔ "Plausible" is a pretty weak statement, and I'm not blaming Israel for 1967 war [344 words]	Charles Martel (the baffled)	Nov 5, 2007 12:52

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