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State & Barracks

The nexus of military, money, and the state in Egypt

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Strategic Weightlessness

Egypt Security Sector Report

The Farmer Behind the Tank Hunter

A Conscript, a Village, the Making of a War Hero

Transport General Presides Over Debt and Disaster

Egypt Security Sector Report

Routine in the Desert

Review of Sinai Field Mission (1978)

From Marassi to Bardawil: Who Owns Egypt’s Shores?

Egypt Security Sector Report

When the Khedive Decorated Egypt’s Invaders

A Bronze Star With a Very Dark Story

Army Economic Expansion Continues Unabated

Egypt Security Sector Report

The Egyptian-Sudanese Battalion That Fought for the French in Mexico

From the Nile to Veracruz

Sisi's Authoritarian Formula

Egypt Security Sector Report

Empire in the Mirror

A book about Sudan. A book about power

The Crowd-Phobic Republic

Egypt Security Sector Report

The Army Was Born in Sudan

The colonial violence at the heart of Egypt’s military founding

The Military’s Civilian Problem

Egypt Security Sector Report

Building Khartoum, Losing Sudan

Egyptian Officers, Colonial Sudan, and the Story of an Imperial Project That Ended in Expulsion

The State’s Deadly Borderlands

Egypt Security Sector Report

Back to the Beginning

1948, Trial by Fire for a Half-Built Air Force

Border Wars, Hidden Poverty, Broken Pensions

Egypt Security Sector Report

From Desert Camouflage to Grey Skies

The evolution of Egyptian fighter paint schemes is not cosmetic.

The Fall of Nakhnoukh

Egypt Security Sector Report

Mapping Egyptian Airfields

An open-source reference compiled from satellite imagery and archival sources