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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 07/09/2026

Coming up this Thursday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 17/08/2026

Coming up Thursday on my Substack barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/08/2026

A new issue of Egypt Security Sector Report is coming up next Monday on my Substack Subscribe: barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 08/08/2026

New issue of my weekly Egypt Security Sector Report is coming out on Monday Subscribe: barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 06/08/2026

Coming next Thursday: a piece on Abdel Ati, the “Tank Hunter,” the story of the RPG-7 and Sagger missiles, and how Egypt pioneered infantry anti-tank tactics during the October 1973 War. barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 04/08/2026

On Thursday, I will publish a review of Frederick Wiseman’s 1978 documentary 'Sinai Field Mission' on my Substack barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 30/07/2026

Next Thursday, I'm starting a mini-weekly series on my Substack about the Egyptian Army on Screen, discussing the military's appearance in pop culture Subscribe to read: barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 29/07/2026

New issue of the Egypt Security Sectot Report coming out Monday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/07/2026

This coming Thursday I'll be concluding my weekly mini-series on the history of the Egyptian army in colonial Sudan barracks.substack.com/t/egyptian-a...

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/07/2026

I bought a medal struck by Khedive Tawfiq to honor the foreign troops who crushed the ʿUrabi revolt, bombarded Alexandria, and inaugurated the occupation. A small, handsome artifact of collaboration, and a state narrative cast in bronze. New post Thursday. Subscribe to read! barracks.substack.com

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 23/07/2026

New issue of my weekly Egypt Security Sector Report is coming out on Monday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 23/07/2026

Coming up next Thursday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 22/07/2026

Coming up tomorrow Thursday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 20/07/2026

American bayonets confront participants in the Poor People’s Campaign, as reported by Egypt’s Akher Saa magazine on June 26, 1968.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 19/07/2026

Coming up tomorrow Monday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

Egyptian Navy submariner loads a torpedo during a military exercise. Akher Saa magazine, 23 August 1961.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

Coming up tomorrow Monday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

Akher Saa Magazine, 3 April 1968, profile hails Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Andrei Grechko as “the peasant marshal who speaks with missiles.”

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

The Palestinian Resistance, Akher Saa Magazine, 30 October 1968.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

The War of Attrition, Akher Saa Magazine, 30 October 1968.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 12/07/2026

Interview with the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force, Akher Saa Magazine, 30 October 1968.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 11/07/2026

Next Thursday, I continue my weekly mini-series on the Egyptian military in colonial Sudan. This week, I examine how claims of mastery over Sudan were among the main pillars of the rise of modern Egyptian nationalism.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 10/07/2026

New issue of Egypt Security Sector Report dropping Monday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 09/07/2026

Next Thursday, I continue my mini-series on the history of the Egyptian military in colonial Sudan.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 08/07/2026

Coming up tomorrow Thursday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 06/07/2026

This Thursday, I revisit Khaled Fahmy's book, part of my ongoing weekly mini-series on the history of the Egyptian military in colonial Sudan

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 01/07/2026

Coming up next Monday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 29/06/2026

Egyptian army personnel wounded in al-Faluja siege, Palestine. Published in Akher Saa magazine, February 2, 1949.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 29/06/2026

An Egyptian NCO wounded in al-Faluja siege, Palestine. Published in Akher Saa magazine, February 2, 1949.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/06/2026

An Egyptian soldier wounded in al-Faluja siege, Palestine. Published in Akher Saa magazine, February 2, 1949.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/06/2026

“Military factories work for peace and prosperity,” an advertisement in the Egyptian magazine Akher Saa, June 14, 1961.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/06/2026

Sami al-Hinnawi, leader of Syria’s 1949 coup, in a caricature by Saroukhan, published in the Egyptian Akher Saa magazine, August 31, 1949.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/06/2026

A new issue of the Egypt Security Sector Report is coming out tomorrow Monday on my Substack. Subscribe to read.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 25/06/2026

Next Thursday, I'm launching a new weekly mini-series on my Substack about the history of the Egyptian military in colonial Sudan.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 24/06/2026

Coming up tomorrow, Thursday, on my Substack, another instalment in my history of the Egyptian Air Force series.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 20/06/2026

Egypt Security Sector Report coming up on Monday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 14/06/2026

New report coming out tomorrow Monday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 11/06/2026

Next Thursday, my ongoing history of the Egyptian Air Force series continues with a new installment on the evolution of fighter paint schemes.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 11/06/2026

Egypt Security Sector Report out on Monday. Subscribe to read!

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 31/05/2026

Coming up this Thursday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 23/05/2026

A new installment in my ongoing history of the Egyptian Air Force series is dropping Thursday

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 22/05/2026

How did a mid-level Air Force officer suddenly become in charge of the country's agricultural sector, lakes, fisheries, and food imports? Read my report on Monday.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 19/05/2026

Coming up next Monday on my Substack

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 14/05/2026

Next Thursday, I'll publish a new installment in my ongoing history of the Egyptian Air Force series on my Substack, discussing an interesting chapter in technology transfer between Egypt and China.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 09/05/2026

New Egypt Security Sector Report dropping Monday. Subscribe to read.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 08/05/2026

Next Thursday, as part of my ongoing series exploring the history of the Egyptian Air Force, I'll be reviewing Tom Cooper’s "MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East: Mikoyan I Gurevich MiG-23 in Service in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya and Syria, 1973 Until Today."

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 06/05/2026

Coming up tomorrow on Substack. A new installment in my history of the Egyptian Air Force series. Subscribe to read.

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 04/05/2026

In 2021, Sisi upgraded the Military Intelligence from an "Administration" to "Authority," and integrated other administrations, including the powerful Administration of Morale Affairs, under the new Military Intelligence Authority umbrella. I discuss this in detail in my book.

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