The Egyptian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Arab Republic of Egypt. They consist of the Egyptian Army,Egyptian Navy,Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Forces.
The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointee of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952,the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces,and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government. The current president is Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,who has been in office since 8 June 2014.
Mushir is an Arabic word meaning "counsellor" or "advisor". It is related to the word shura,meaning consultation or "taking counsel".
Mohamed Abdel Hakim Amer was an Egyptian military officer and politician. Amer served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,and played a leading role in the military coup that overthrew King Farouk in 1952. After leading Egyptian forces in the 1956 Suez war,he was appointed Minister for Defense by President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was Egyptian Vice President between 1958 and 1965.
Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is an Egyptian businessman and politician.
The Cabinet of Egypt is the chief executive body of the Arab Republic of Egypt. It consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers.
Field Marshal Ahmad Ismail Ali was an Egyptian senior military officer who was Egypt's minister of war during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal,code-named Operation Badr.
Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei was an Egyptian military officer who was a member of the Free Officers Movement and served as vice president under two Egyptian presidents,Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement and led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising,and was one of only three last-surviving members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.
Abdel Rahman Suwar al-Dahab was a Sudanese military officer who served as the Head of State of Sudan from 6 April 1985,to 6 May 1986.
The Kingdom of Egypt was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign,from the United Kingdom's recognition of Egyptian independence in 1922 until the abolition of the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan in 1953 following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Until the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936,the Kingdom was only nominally independent,as the United Kingdom retained control of foreign relations,communications,the military,and Sudan. Officially,Sudan was governed as a condominium of the two states;however,in reality,true power in Sudan lay with the United Kingdom. Between 1936 and 1952,the United Kingdom continued to maintain its military presence,and its political advisers,at a reduced level.
The 14 July Revolution,also known as the 1958 Iraqi military coup,was a coup d'état that took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq which resulted in the toppling of King Faisal II and the overthrow of the Hashemite-led Kingdom of Iraq. The Iraqi Republic established in its wake ended the Hashemite Arab Federation between Iraq and Jordan that had been established just six months earlier.
Abdel Latif Boghdadi or Abd el-Latif el-Baghdadi was an Egyptian politician,senior air force officer,and judge. An original member of the Free Officers Movement which overthrew the monarchy in Egypt in the 1952 Revolution,Boghdadi later served as Gamal Abdel Nasser's vice president. The French author Jean Lacouture called Boghdadi "a robust manager" who only lacked "stature comparable to Nasser's." The two leaders had a falling out over Nasser's increasingly socialist and pro-USSR policies and Boghdadi subsequently withdrew from political life in 1964,although he mended ties with Nasser before the latter's death in 1970.
Abdel Hamid Sarraj was a Syrian Army officer and politician. When the union between Egypt and Syria was declared,Sarraj,a staunch Arab nationalist and supporter of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser,played a key role in the leadership of the Syrian region of the UAR. Due to the repression of the UAR towards the Syrian communists he was nicknamed Sultan Abdel Hamid referring to the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is a statutory body of between 20 and 25 senior officers of the Egyptian Armed Forces,and is headed by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Lieutenant General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki. The council is convened only in cases of war or great internal emergencies.
The cabinet of Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil was appointed by President Mohamed Morsi,following the resignation of military-named premier Kamal Ganzouri. The cabinet consists of 36 ministers. The composition of the government is mostly formed by technocrats,with five Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) members and one member each from the Al-Wasat and Renaissance parties.
Abd el-Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian military in 2014,Sisi served as Egypt's deputy prime minister from 2013 to 2014,minister of defense from 2012 to 2013,and director of military intelligence from 2010 to 2012. He was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in January 2014.
Ahmed Gamal El Din is a retired police general and Egypt's former minister of interior. He served in the Qandil cabinet.
The following lists events from 2014 in Egypt.
The Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance Administration,is the agency of the Egyptian Ministry of Defense responsible for military intelligence. It is one of the three Egyptian intelligence services,along with the General Intelligence Service (GIS) and National Security Agency.
