Ya'alon: Full Yom Kippur War report only in 20 years

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Most of the Israel Defense Forces' official study
of the Yom Kippur War will be published only in
another 20 years, IDF Chief of Staff Moshe
Ya'alon
has decided.

In August, Ya'alon ordered the
IDF's history department to
expand and update the study
with a view to publishing most
of it in the near future.
However, he has now decided
that the report's conclusions
should not yet be publicized in
full.

Ya'alon told Haaretz that the report contained
"many criticisms, some of which were found to
be correct. Now a new study is being carried
out, in a very thorough manner, and we must
allow it to proceed. The matters that are
important to us, as an army, have already been
studied. But for the sake of history, several
chapters should be fleshed out - and that is
what is being done now."

In the meantime, he said, the IDF will consider
publishing only selected sections of the
research. "The rule is to publish only after 50
years. What's the hurry? I assume that most the study] will be published only after 50
years. We will decide as needed," he said.

Haaretz