Egypt is not a country with a military, but a military with a country. Since the army coup of 1954, the Armed Forces have grown to be a powerful force in Egypt's economy, controlling 40 per cent of it, from real estate to bottling mineral water. The 20 men in their fifties and sixties who make up Scaf are not about to lose all their privileges because a group of Westernised liberals revolted in Tahrir Square.
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