[Little Ray]

If I had to fight ‘em, I’d rather have ‘em trained by the Kremlin or the Revolutionary Guard - they’d be less competent, wedded to failed combat doctrines and generally easier to kill.

[silverleaf]

the point is, under Mubarak, you haven't had to fight them, have you? Nor has Israel

and the Egyptian West Pointers’ military education has contained strong doses of Western history, philosophy, Constitutional study, discussions of military-civilian relations

I would say the modernization of Egypt and the development of a middle class will depend on the training received by the military officers, and the civil servants, many of whom I will guess were educated in European-style bureaucracy. British clerks, French diplomats, Italian traffic police.....LOL