24/7 Wall St. Insights Egypt is home to the strongest military on the African continent. It has over 1,000 M1 Abrams tanks at its disposal. Egypt has over 1,000 aircraft including advanced fighter ...

CAIRO (AFP) – The deadly crackdown on Islamists across Egypt could radicalise their ranks and at the same time further bolster the powerful army during the country's transitional phase, experts ...

The old guard of Egyptian military high command, many of whom entered the ranks of the military during the Cold War shortly after Nasser turned to the Soviet Union to train and arm the Egyptian ...

The Egyptian army has ranked as the 18th strongest army worldwide on the Global Power Fire list. The US army ranked first, followed by the Russian, Chinese, Indian, British, French, Japanese, South ...

A ll eyes turned to Egypt’s military as protests shook the regime and President Hosni Mubarak’s grip on power. Described again and again as the most trusted and stable of the country’s ...

The Egyptian military’s 468,000 troops makes it the world’s 10th largest ... While its enlisted ranks are filled with conscripts — all able Egyptian males must serve — its officer ...

Egypt's military, the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel, is in decline, according to American diplomats, who blame the Arab nation's top brass for failing to modernize and adapt ...

In its most recent statement on North Sinai, the Egyptian military said 89 suspected militants had been killed in an undefined period over recent months, against eight casualties from its own ranks.

Like the rest of Egyptian society, the army was ordered into a strict hierarchy. There were as many as 50 different ranks and the highest were passed down from father to son.

The ongoing protests in Egypt are putting pressure on the Egyptian military. ... seen as the people's force. And Cordesman says especially in the middle ranks, it's a politically diverse force.