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Chief Of The General Staff (Egypt)
The Chief of the General Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces ( arz, رئيس أركان حرب القوات المسلحة, Rayiys 'arkan harb alquaat almusalaha) is second in command after the Minister of Defense and the President. He usually holds the second highest military rank. Commanders of the Navy, Air Force and Air Defense Forces are under his command. List of chiefs The following is a list of chiefs of the General Staff of Egypt since the Egyptian revolution of 1952. * Incumbent's time in office last updated: . Timeline ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:10 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:160 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1950 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1950 Define $now = 2022 Colors = id:cgs value:rgb(1,0,0) id:time value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.9) LineData = layer:back width:0.1 color:time at:1950 at:1955 at:1960 at:1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Egypt
The coat of arms of Egypt () is known as the Republican Eagle or Egyptian Golden Eagle, is a heraldic golden eagle, facing the viewer's left ( dexter). The eagle's breast is charged with an escutcheon bearing the red-white-black bands of the flag of Egypt rotated vertically, whilst the eagle's talons hold a scroll bearing the official name of the state written in Kufic script. The earliest version of the Eagle of Saladin was that used as the flag of Saladin, the first Sultan of Egypt, whilst the modern version of the eagle was adopted during the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Subsequently, the modern design of the Eagle of Saladin was adopted as the coat of arms of numerous other states in the Arab World, namely the United Arab Republic, North Yemen, Iraq, South Yemen, the Libyan Arab Republic, and Palestine. The current eagle was modified in 1984 to its present form. History Eagles have for millennia been symbols of power in Egypt, appearing in innumerable devotional and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Ismail Ali
Ahmad Ismail Ali ( ar, أحمد إسماعيل علي) (14 October 1917 – 26 December 1974) was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's army and minister of war during the October War of 1973, and is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal, code-named Operation Badr. Ali's mother was of partial Albanian descent. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1938 and was a colleague of both the late President Anwar Sadat and President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Academy. After graduating with the rank of second lieutenant, he joined the infantry and served the Second World War and fought in the 1948 Palestine War, the 1956 Tripartite Aggression and the 1967 war. He became in 1969 the Chief of Staff The Egyptian army and then was dismissed by President Abdel Nasser because of the famous Zafarana incident. Then President Sadat returned him to the service as head of the General Intelligence, then he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General and became M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Farid Hegazy
Lieutenant General Mohammed Farid Hegazy (born 1954) is the former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Previously he was Chief of Staff and then Commander of the Second Field Army The Second Field Army (第二野战军), initially known as the Central Plains Field Army (中原野战军) or the Liu-Deng Army, was a major military formation of the Chinese Communist Party during the last stages of the Chinese Civil War. The ... (2010–2012), and then Secretary-General of the Ministry of Defence. He served as Chief of Staff from 28 October 2017 to 27 October 2021. References Egyptian military officers 1954 births Living people {{Egypt-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Hegazy
Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud Hegazy ( ar, محمود إبراهيم محمود حجازى; born 11 May 1956) is an Egyptian general who was the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces from 2014 to 2017. Hegazy graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1977, and served as the Chief of the Egyptian Military intelligence before his appointment as Chief of Staff by the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He is related to Sisi through the marriage of their respective children. Mahmoud Hegazy was replaced in 2017 by Mohammed Farid Hegazy in a shakeup of high level security personnel. No reason was given for the changes, but since 2013, Egypt has been fighting an ongoing Islamist insurgency that has killed of hundreds of policemen and soldiers. A week before the dismissal, sixteen policemen were killed during a police operation in the western desert of Giza province, and two high level security personnel for Giza were also dismissed. Hegazy was given a position of security ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedki Sobhy
Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmad ( ar, صدقى صبحى سيد أحمد ) (born 12 December 1955) is an Egyptian politician and former General who was Minister of Defence of Egypt from 2014 until 2018. Sobhy previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from August 2012 to March 2014. He was sworn in as Minister of Defence in March 2014 after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency. He also commanded the Third Army for a time. Military education * Bachelor of military sciences, Egyptian Military Academy * The Advanced course, Egyptian Military Academy * The sophisticated course, Egyptian Military Academy * M.A. of Military sciences, Egyptian Joint Command and staff college * War Course, Fellowship of the Higher War College, Nasser's Military Sciences Academy * Basic Infantry scholarship, United States * Advanced Infantry scholarship, United States * Training planning course, United States * War Course, US Army War College, Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Hafez Anan
Lieutenant General Sami Hafez Anan or Enan ( ar, سامى حافظ عنان, ; born 2 February 1948) is an Egyptian military officer. He was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces from 2005 until August 2012, until his retirement was announced by President Mohamed Morsi. In January 2018, he announced himself as a candidate in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election before being arrested for violating the military rules for announcing his candidacy without seeking the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces approval, which "constituted clear incitement against the armed forces with the intention of driving a wedge between it and the great Egyptian people." He was also accused of forging documents to falsely indicate his military service was terminated. He was released on 22 December 2019. Early career He commanded a brigade from 1992. From 1990 to 1993 he was the Egyptian Defence Attaché to Morocco. From 1996 to 1998 he reportedly commanded the 5th Air Defence Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdy Hatata
Magdy Hatata (born 1941) is an Egyptian military officer who held various positions during the Presidency of Hosni Mubarak. Biography Hatata was born in 1941. He received a master of arts degree in military science and a fellowship of the Nasser Military Academy’s Higher War College. He served as the commander of the second field army. He also headed the Republican Guard being the fifth commander of the guard under Mubarak. He was one of the military personnel fought against Israel in 1973. Hatata was promoted to the rank of the lieutenant general. He was appointed chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces on 31 October 1995 replacing Salah Halabi in the post. Hatata held the post until 31 October 2001 when Hamdy Wahiba was appointed to the post. The same year Hatata was named by the President Hosni Mubarak as the head of Arab Organization for Industrialization The Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) ( ar, الهيئة العربية للتصنيع) is an Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Halabi
Lieutenant General Salah Mohamed Attia Halabi (January 30, 1937 – October 26, 2014) was an Egyptian Army officer. he commanded an infantry brigade, an infantry division, the Third Army, and commanded the two-division Corps Sized Egyptian expeditionary force to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. In 1989-91, the Egyptian II Corps under Halabi, at that point a major general, with the 3rd Mechanized Division and the 4th Armoured Division, fought as part of the Arab Joint Forces Command North during Operation Desert Storm. Halabi had been transferred from command of the presidential guard after the initial commander, General Ahmed Bilal, was recalled by Mubarak before the war started because of differences with the Saudi generals.Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change, 139. After the war, Halabi was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from 1991-1993, and in retirement directed the Arab Organization for Industrialization The Arab Organization for Industrializati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim El-Orabi
Ibrahim Abdel Ghafour El Orabi ( ar, إبراهيم عبد الغفور العرابي , ); 20 May 1931 – 18 September 2019) was an Egyptian Army Lieutenant General and the 13th and former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. He was a member of the Free Officers Movement, as defined by the Egyptian revolution of 1952. He served as the 7th Chief of Operations of the Armed Forces, the commander of the Second Field Army, commander of the 21st Armored Division, Commander of the Arab Forces in Iraq, and as the commander of the Egyptian Armoured Corps, which were deployed in the North Yemen Civil War. As the chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Orabi was formerly the second highest-ranking military officer in all of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Early life Orabi was born in Gharbia in 1931 into a politically influential family. He was the relative of Ali Zaki El Orabi Pasha, former Minister of Public Knowledge and Minister of Transportation and Communicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Badawi
Ahmed Badawi Sayyid Ahmed (Arabic: أحمد بدوي سيد أحمد) was an Egyptian Field Marshal (Mushir) and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Early life Ahmed Badawy was born in the coastal city of Alexandria in 1927. He studied commerce at Alexandria University where he obtained his bachelor's degree, he then traveled to Moscow on a scholarship to the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. Career He became a senior lecturer at the military academy in 1958 but then he was fired from the military service in 1967. President Anwar El-Sadat then asked him to return to military service at the same time as he became a lecturer at Ain Shams University. As a brigadier general, he commanded the 7th Infantry Division during the Yom Kippur War, and after the Third Army became encircled, was placed in command of the cut-off force. The isolated part of the army was made up of the 7th and 19th Infantry Divisions, plus two independent armoured brigades, on the east bank, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Aly Fahmy
Mohammed Aly Fahmy (11 October 1920 – 11 September 1999) was an Egyptian field marshal, known as the "Father of the Egyptian Air Defense". Early life, education and early career Fahmy was born in Cairo in 1920. He received a degree in engineering from the Cairo University. Then he graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1940 and from the Air Defense Academy in Kalinin, Soviet Union. Following his qraduation Fahmy was commissioned in a cavalry unit and initially commanded armored platoons and squadrons equipped with Cruiser Mk I, Mk II, Crusader and Sherman tanks. In 1952 he was in command of an armored battalion at Alexandria and was crucial during the July coup. Military years In 1953, he was made an executive staff officer in the Defense Ministry. In 1954 he was promoted to the rank of colonel. From 1955 onwards he became interested in the concept of Air Defense and proposed to President Nasser to further extend the existing Air Defense units in the Army whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
