In October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, beginning a war that would transform far more than the battlefields of Sinai and the Golan Heights.

This episode explores how the conflict shattered Israel’s sense of security, restored Egyptian confidence, drew the United States and Soviet Union toward a dangerous confrontation, and turned oil into a powerful geopolitical weapon. As Arab producers reduced supplies and imposed an embargo, fuel prices surged, inflation accelerated, and economies around the world entered an era of shortages and stagflation.

Discover how a short regional war reshaped global energy policy, changed Cold War diplomacy, and demonstrated that military victory, political victory, and economic power are not always the same thing.