Look statistically it is correct. But seriously, you wanna tell me we are better trained/equipped than Pakistan, Israel and Iran??? I have read more than one article and they all seem to overestimate the power of the Egyptian Army. Our soldiers use 1970s AKs guys..... outdated weapons, guns. Our Abraham tank fleet is an 80s fleet. We have a couple of aircraft carriers whom I already told mons caporal we cannot even control or handle. We lack equipment/weaponry/training and most important BRAINS!
You see here, they focus on the utmost supreme strength at the expense of everything else. An example: you have to graduate from the academy with no less than 60 pull-ups and if you want a leave every time to get permission to leave the base you need 100+ pushups + 100+ situps but that's just about it. These things cost no money so they let you do it. When it comes to brains we have none. Equipment none. Egyptian soldiers are one of the most stupid human beings you can ever come to contact with. You know in SF ideally, you get an escape and evade course in the final week of your training. In the SAS or DELTA it is maximum for 3 days or a week at most. Here, because the rate of failure is so damn high our soldiers/officers in the SF are trained for months to resist torture because they always fail and get captured by the enemy. You get thrown in salty water for hours. You get electricity, beaten up by a whip called well satan's dick
You literally get treated like an animal. They make Spetsnaz training look like scout girls picking flowers. That's why the idea of Martyrdom is being propagated in the SF here in Egypt. When they parachute you in they do not have the means or equipment to pick you up and send you back home. It is a one way ticket. Instead they tell you, you are going to paradise to sleep with 72 very beautiful girls
When SF are on an operation here they do not carry a 50 pounds rucksack of equipment, they cannot find enough equipment to even fill a 20 pounds rucksack instead they are taught how to hunt from the wilderness and eat snakes rabbits etc etc which isn't really effective these days considering I once saw an SAS documentary showing that they had all sorts of food and supplies in their rucksacks. I mean you can depend on that as a last way of survival when you run out of everything. But you cannot depend on that as you main way of supplying yourself!
And that was the SF guys, the most trained well equipped force in Egypt. What do you think is the situation for a regular soldier/officer or worse a conscript?
All in all, they are just overestimating us because we have a lot of manpower and toughness but really that's all we have. Try making a Sayeret officer or shayatet or whatever they are called face a 777/999 ours will be tough and muscular as hell but brainless, out of options, out of equipment and most of all out of knowledge. The Israeli will kick our man's sorry ass.
We once had a very strong SF unit in the 70s which was trained by the SAS but the stupid El Sadat (former president) thought they would represent a threat over his reign and may one day take part in a coup against him! so he well....disbanded them and transferred them into "logistics" regiments.....
Here, our lovely armed forces still believe that bodybuilders can actually make good special forces soldiers apparently they still crave Rambo and the expendables and the Hollywood bullshit. They forget the fact that them bodybuilders, cannot run, cannot be flexible, cannot be fast, cannot be swift or silent.
To be honest, we have quality fighter pilots and artillary officers but that's just about it. Even our intelligence, it is so damn busy with Sissi and whoever opposes him and the elections that it has forgotten it is our frontline defense against ISIS!
Sorry guys, but the world have a very wrong idea about our armed forces. If it was very strong as they claim it is, they would have managed to kill 1000 JIhadis hiding in Sinai's wilderness 5 years ago. Instead, we absolutely lost the war and now there are thousands of Jihadists in Sinai. Where is our SF? It is guarding Monsieur Sissi's palace and parades. While our poor college graduate conscripts are fighting ex SF terrorists in Sinai.