“The sight of officers in uniform protesting in Tahrir Square and speaking on Al Jazeera really worries the Field Marshal,” a former officer told me. And one way to maintain internal cohesion is to create “demons” – a lesson learned from the “dirty wars” in Algeria in the 1990’s and Argentina in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
“在解放广场抗议并在阿拉伯半岛新闻电视台讲话的军人实际上是担心陆军统帅，”一位前官员对我说。保持内部凝聚力的一种方法是创造“恶魔”——这是从二十世纪九十年代阿尔及利亚和二十世纪七八十年代阿根廷的“肮脏战争”中学来的。