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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Interior Ministry Budget VS. Defense Budget

The graph above is from an extremely long article on Carnegie Middle East Center titled "Above the State: The Officer's Republic of Egypt". Excerpt below:

Posted by LK at 10:15 PM

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