Analysts cite a clause in Egypt's new constitution that granted the military the right to try civilians in army courts – a major concession that suggested Morsi was not willing to confront army interests.
Observers are at odds over just how much Obama can actually push Thein Sein and attempt to override entrenched army interests, among them a constitution that ensures that one-quarter of all parliamentary seats is reserved for the military.
Then, she said, one of the more popular generals could have resigned from his military post, and offered himself as a national unity candidate, while holding his army interests close.
But next time, when protesters call for something that isn't in the army's interest, they will meet a very different fate.
Thus it is increasingly in his (and perhaps the army's) interest to increase his clout over the civilian politicians in the coming months, even if that falls short of outright usurpation of power.
In a presidential race whose outcome is expected to hang on turnout at the polls, an army of interest groups is pumping at least $350 million into get-out-the-vote campaigns that are rewriting the tactics of elections.
Mr. Clinton's effort to restructure health care, which became a target for an army of interest groups, failed to pass either the House or the Senate, and is widely considered a major reason that his party lost Congress in the 1994 election.
The Spanish army's interest in the tank began near the end of World War I, when a formal petition for one Renault FT light tank was made to the French government on 28 October 1918.
In February 2015, the South Korean Army showed interest in the V-22 for delivering special forces to islands in the Yellow Sea near North Korean territory; talks are to be held during 2015 on a possible Osprey buy.
The army expressed interest in Inglis' bridge design; it was approved for use by a panel of army officers that included the general who had first commented on the design, to whom Inglis said "I hope, Sir, you will find I have profited by your advice".
