The two men now running Egypt -- Hosni Mubarak, 82, and his hand-picked successor, 74-year-old Omar Suleiman -- both attended Moscow's Frunze Military Academy as young officers (Mubarak also trained as a pilot in Moscow). That's where they learned how to command subordinates -- and deal with challenges. Like the rest of the Egyptian military of their generation, they marched in lockstep with the Soviet military's principles, doctrine and management style.
But ever since the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, promising Egyptian military officers have come to U.S. military schools, including the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn., the Army's Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Inculcated there with U.S. ideals on lawful civilian control of military, such an education has helped act as a "safety" on the firepower of the Egyptian streets now massing in Cairo and in other cities.
The two men now running Egypt -- Hosni Mubarak, 82, and his hand-picked successor, 74-year-old Omar Suleiman -- both attended Moscow's Frunze Military Academy as young officers (Mubarak also trained as a pilot in Moscow). That's where they learned how to command subordinates -- and deal with challenges. Like the rest of the Egyptian military of their generation, they marched in lockstep with the Soviet military's principles, doctrine and management style.
But ever since the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, promising Egyptian military officers have come to U.S. military schools, including the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn., the Army's Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Inculcated there with U.S. ideals on lawful civilian control of military, such an education has helped act as a "safety" on the firepower of the Egyptian streets now massing in Cairo and in other cities.
"This new generation of Egyptian officers has been exposed to the American military and has had a very favorable impression of not just the way we fight our wars but also about the relationship between the military and society," says Robert Scales, a retired Army major general who served as commandant of the Army War College where he launched the international fellows program. "One of the reasons for the army's reluctance to follow Mubarak's intent and squeeze the population in Cairo has to do with the Egyptian military's exposure to the U.S. military."
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