“Since Jan. 29, 2011, when residents of Cairo woke up after a day of tumultuous demonstrations to discover tanks and armored personnel carriers throughout the city, the army has been on the streets and in the halls of government nearly continuously. What kind of politics does such an overt military presence suggest?” asks Ellis Goldberg, former director of the Jackson School’s Middle East Center and professor of political science at the University of Washington, in his Washington Post article “What was the Egyptian military thinking after the revolution?“