Cairo Military Firmly Hooked to U.S. Lifeline (Published 2013)

Apache attack helicopters are among the weaponry supplied to Egypt by the United States.Credit...Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters WASHINGTON — The money seems like a pittance for Egypt, which has a $256 billion economy. But the $1.3 billion in military aid that the United States gives the country every year is its main access to the kind of big-ticket, sophisticated weaponry that the Egyptian military