These are hard things to fix, and Mr Sisi may be loth to upset his base in the civil service or risk more discontent at a time when he is already suppressing dissent.Even more worryingly, the army has reclaimed its prominent role in the economy in recent months, leading a project to redevelop the Suez canal, for example.
In the meantime, the life of ordinary Burmese is becoming ever more miserable.The army has ruled Myanmar since 1962.
Some Olympians were taken the wrong way from Heathrow airport by bus; more embarrassingly, the army has had to step in to provide security.
"I like to show uniforms anyway, but in the course of the last 10 years the role of the army has got more and more difficult.
The Pakistan army has more than a million soldiers and reservists, supported by a third as many paramilitary troops.
Isis is active mainly in the east and north-east, which the undermanned Syrian army has more or less abandoned.
One shudders to think how many more of this barmy army has been recruited by the – admittedly brilliant – book One Day, and now the film.
Death Toll Is Doubled in ClashWith Renegade in Southern SudanThe death toll from a recent clash in southernSudan between a renegade general, GeorgeAthor, and the southern army has more thandoubled, to 211, officials said Tuesday.
Since they made it clear that they would not back down on the battlefield, the Turkish army has more or less contained the guerrillas of Mr Ocalan's Kurdish Workers Partyy (PKK) in south-eastern Turkey, where he started his uprising 14 years ago.
More often, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d'état or actually helped to overthrow the incumbent ruler.
