In the memory of 1967 defeat, Khaled Mansour put forward along with a group of most brilliant researchers these questions in the book “Dissecting Defeat of June 1967”. Questions that explain how and why was Egypt defeated in the war of six days.
Did the USA urge Israel to fight Egypt?
Aligning the Arabs against Israel, but how and why?
The war that began and ended in 48 hours: how did Israel took control of Sinai? Who defeated Egypt?

The book rereads a critical event in the history of contemporary Egypt: the defeat of June 1967. Fifty years separate us from this defeat, but its marks are still present in all aspects of our life. Not only because it was a horrible military defeat, but also as it revealed, with its cruelty and the tremendous shock it left, the decline of a social-economic-political project launched by the authority of July 1952 more than ten years before.

Along the six chapters of the book, the authors offer critical insights to the roots and results of the war, as well as its relation to the structure and formation of July state, and the way the latter administrated the modernization experiment in Egypt in the years of mid twentieth century. Perhaps the implicit assumption shared by the authors of this book, different in views as they are; is that the defeat even if it was a surprise to those who lived then, was not an event without introductions. The factors that made it were eroding the body of July project along the years previous to the war. And when the war exposed the facts, the orientations changed and the project turned against itself, but the deep structures of the Nasser state did not change. They were reused for contrary purposes, so we reached the state of complete decomposition that can be seen in every site and field today. So, June 1967 still makes our present, and this present unless we practice a radical criticism; relentless towards the ghosts and nightmares of the past.