After the Yom Kippur War, there was little rejoicing in Israel; the failure to foresee the attack was Israel's greatest intelligence failure, with one analyst blaming arrogance, lack of understanding of abundant intelligence, and disregard for the enemy, while military historian John Hughes Wilson described it as confusing political aspirations with hard facts, leading Israel to vow never to make the same mistakes again—yet the same pattern is repeating with the recent Hamas attacks.