Military Dependency: The Egyptian Case

  • Salah Al-Din Hadidi
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Abstract

The Egyptian armed forces’ association with the Eastern bloc began in the second half of 1955 when the first batch of weapons coming from Czechoslovakia reached the harbour of Alexandria amidst great secrecy and [stringent] security measures. This was followed by further shipments of weapons which were immediately distributed among the various units of the Egyptian armed forces in replacement of the British weapons with which the armed forces had until then been equipped: thus did Egypt sever a connection with British armament which went back to the 1882 occupation. There is no doubt that the first batch of weapons from Czechoslovakia came as a result of the Bandung Conference which was attended by an Egyptian delegation headed by the late President Nasser, who met with many world leaders, and among them most of the leaders of the socialist countries.

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