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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egypt is one of the 15 largest global military powers, the report said, while Saudi Arabia maintained its 22nd position in the world, while it came second in the list of Arab armies after Egypt.

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.

CAIRO — The Egyptian military had long been run by aging generals and ambitious colonels who for six decades guarded the nation’s power while sitting poolside at social clubs and enriching ...