Sedki Sobhy | |
Honorific-Prefix: | General |
Native Name: | Arabic: صدقى صبحى سيد أحمد |
Office1: | 45th Minister of Defence |
President1: | Adly Mansour Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Primeminister1: | Ibrahim Mahlab Sherif Ismail[1] |
Term Start1: | 26 March 2014 |
Term End1: | 14 June 2018 |
Predecessor1: | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Successor1: | Mohamed Ahmed Zaki |
Office2: | Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces |
President2: | Adly Mansour Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Primeminister2: | Ibrahim Mahlab Sherif Ismail Mostafa Madbouly |
Term Start2: | 26 March 2014[2] |
Term End2: | 14 June 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Successor2: | Mohamed Ahmed Zaki |
Office3: | Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces |
1Blankname3: | Commander |
1Namedata3: | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Term Start3: | 12 August 2012 |
Term End3: | 26 March 2014 |
Predecessor3: | Sami Hafez Anan |
Successor3: | Mahmoud Hegazy |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1955 |
Birth Place: | Menouf, Republic of Egypt |
Party: | Independent |
Allegiance: | Egypt |
Serviceyears: | 1976–2018 |
Rank: | General |
Battles: | Gulf War Sinai Insurgency 2015 Egyptian military intervention in Libya Intervention in Yemen |
Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmad (Arabic: صدقى صبحى سيد أحمد pronounced as /ˈsˤedʔi ˈsˤobħi ˈsæj.jed ˈæħmæd/) (born 12 December 1955) is an Egyptian politician and former General who was Minister of Defence of Egypt from 2014 until 2018. Sobhy previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from August 2012 to March 2014. He was sworn in as Minister of Defence in March 2014 after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency.[3] He also commanded the Third Army for a time.[4]
In 2004–2005 Sedki Sobhy studied for a Master's Degree in Strategic Studies at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[6] While there he wrote a paper recommending that the United States withdraw its military from the Middle East and concentrate instead on socio-economic aid for the region. The paper was posted on a US Department of Defense website, where it was noticed by analyst Issandr El Amrani.[7]
After the 2013 Egyptian coup, Sedki Sobhy spoke by telephone on 4 July 2013 with Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,[8] and had spoken twice with him by 8 July.[9]
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