"In spite of many warnings, Israel was taken by surprise. Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan sneered at the Arabs as incompetent bunglers and could not imagine that the Syrians and Egyptians, who had been quickly routed in the 1967 war, could have the audacity to attack Israel.
Israeli armoured units counter-attacked with their usual panache.
Israel's air force, among the world's best, pounced on the advancing Egyptians and Syrians. To their dismay, new, Soviet-supplied Sagger AT-3 anti-tank missiles and Egyptian infantry with shoulder-fired RPG missiles shattered Israel's armoured thrusts that rashly lacked infantry support."
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