#egyptian military

[masonjarhead]

[tarasthesauceboss]

Egyptian Special Forces-UAE naval exercise activities

[lightdancer1]

As with most absolute monarchies the real faces of power were as much the forts as they were the arts:

A good example of how Pharaonic power was actually enforced in real time is the first of the two fortresses mentioned, one of which is more well-known for a very specific set of Papyrus that provides one of the many, many ironies in viewing the histories of old Khemet. It should also be stated that these were the real face of Pharaonic power in its more brutal senses, places built to both provide space for garrisons in barracks and to withstand attacks from Nubian infantry, archers, and cavalry.

This is also the kind of fortresses the Nubians both learned to take and then built their own when they became overlords of Egypt in turn. And this is also a continuous factor in the history of Black Africa as elsewhere in the world, because the world is not a vacuum or a place of separate iron curtains. Other cultures can and do force peoples out of complacency and lead to major military revolutions.

Too, as will be covered tomorrow with the Graeco-Roman world and Black people, the Egyptian influence would expand from the Sudan into the Sahara with the Garamantes, and in both Biblical and Hellenistic writings there was very real awareness of the military power of Kush and of Eastern African states. That, however, is a full around 3,000 years from the span when the first realities of warfare between states in Africa that enter the written record are those of Egyptian and Kushite armies in the deadly dances of death along the Nile and the Nile fortresses.

[thenewdemocratus]

Associated Press: Egypt's Army Tightens Grip

Source:FRS FreeState Political satirist George Carlin had this phrase that voters get who they vote for. So in Egypt’s case they elected with less than a majority a weak President and that’s what they got was a weak President who was unable to take on the military establishment and bring civilian rule to the country. Not as a dictator, but as democratically elected leader. And of course the…

[applestorms]

possibly dumb question but do we ever see near. standing up

[bauliya]

it just breaks my heart that palestinian families are raising such insane amounts of money that less than a year ago would’ve transformed their lives for the better, let them pursue their dream degrees, open businesses, pay off their mortgages and various debts, only to travel just a few kilometres and live in precarious penury in egypt. it is so cruel.

[nocternalrandomness]

Lockheed C-130 - Egyptian Air Force - Moscow Vnukovo Airport Russia

[cowboycatss]

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[literaryelise]

“He is Nizahl’s Commander. I should burn with hatred every second spent in his presence.”

The Jasad Heir, Sara Hashem

[nickysfacts]

All hail the god Seth, who with chaos and violence strengthens order!

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[baebeylik]

Steel Sword. Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.

Belonged to Al-Adil Sayf al-Din Tumanbay. 1501 CE.

The Museum of Islamic Art. Cairo

[nationcats]

NationCats Flag Cards - Egyptian Army (1922-1958)

[irhabiya]

egyptian politics tiktok is actually brain melting

[lightdancer1]

The Pharaohs would be genuinely stumped that one group of Canaanite barbarians overshadowed their grandeur so much:

The other fortress, of course, is not known so much for being proof of how Egyptian imperialism in Nubia worked, as one might expect....but for one small section of shrines and papyrus writings reflecting a garrison in this particular fortress of Israelites. To the Pharaohs Elephantine Island was a garrison to ward the Nile from hostile invaders in the south, and like the Chinese they believed very firmly in 'hiring the barbarian to beat the barbarian' where it could be done.

This is another factor that shaped how wars worked and were fought in this time, that armies were not 'national' as we'd think of them and the multi'national' armies that last well into the 1600s or later are very ancient and very much a common practice everywhere.

[emaadsidiki]

Statue of General Ibrahim Pasha at Military Museum Cairo Egypt

[barbucomedie]

Bronze lance-head from the Tomb at Dra abu el-Naga in Thebes, Egypt dated between 1550-1525 BCE on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England

At the start of the 18th Dynasty (about 1550 BCE) , Kind Ahmose extended Egyptian influence in Nubia to the south. Later campaings in the Near East took Egyptian control as far as the Euphrated River in Syria.

Lance, or spear, heads could be a versatile weapon in anchient armies as they could be given to infantry to form defensive battle lines of spears or to cavalry or chariots where they would provide offensive capabilities in the hands of a skilled soldier.

Photographs taken by myself 2019