Basra University discusses the army and authority in the Arab world

The Department of History at the College of Education for Women at Basra University discussed the issue of the army and authority in the Arab world, in the presence of a number of teachers.

The workshop aims to shed light on the role of the army in political life in the Arab region since 1954, and the researcher reviewed the phenomenon of the army in Arab countries bypassing its natural role of protecting territorial sovereignty and moving with all its symbolic and material weight from the borders of the homeland to the borders of politics and power.

The workshop included that the military establishment is not satisfied with the role of controlling borders and protecting homelands from external threats, but rather contributes to decision-making and president-making, as happened in Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Egypt.

The researcher concluded that the military in the Arab world had succeeded in seizing power because they possessed the strength and sustainable efficiency to which they envied, and the Arab military elite was able since the thirties of the last century to happen the first military coup in the Arab world led by Bakr Sidqi and Abd al-Latif Nuri in Iraq, and so far they succeeded in forming A kind of sticky glue that is difficult to extract from Arab political life.