The suez crisis was major political victory for the Egyptians but military wise they got destroyed, instead of a political victory of the french and british pulling out and sinai being occupied by isreal could egypt military defeated these actions. How could Egypt defeat the isreali invasion? Could Egypt have stopped the french and anglo invasion?
If they cant whats the best the Egyptian military could have done in the conflict such as stalemate?
what would you do to make the Egyptian do militarly better during the conflict?
The army sucked because they lacked a strong NCO corps (still don't have one), officers had too much of a political role (still do), conscripts are treated like shit (still are), and officers hoard knowledge which poisons the ability of the army to operate machinery effectively under actual battle conditions (still the case).
They actually managed to improve during the Yom Kippur War and were in striking distance of Israel when the US put our thumb on the scales, they could've won if Syria bothered to tackle their army problems or if Jordan intervened (of course, that would mean Israel breaking out the nukes, and who the hell knows where THAT would lead).
Egypt would need to study the
structure and function of US and to some extent the Allied European militaries, military culture, and doctrine, and implement reforms to build up a strong, reliable NCO corps (that takes 10 years), reduce the politicization of the officers (challenging), improve treatment of conscripts to improve espirit de corps (this one's easy in theory but requires re-education of the officers), end the hoarding of basic information by officers (doable but again requires military culture reforms and re-education of officers), and adapt to strategic and tactical doctrines that would work well with both the equipment they bought off the Soviets (which would be dumbed-down, shitty versions of actual Soviet tech) and the strategic and tactical situations of the Egyptian state (copying the Soviet military as anyone but the Soviet Union isn't going to work as well since they won't have that massive population and cold land area to fall back on).
essentially, Egypt would need to begin plotting major military reforms as early as the 1930s, which would probably run afoul of the British, and would likely need to test the new army and doctrine in WW2, then secure a greater place at the bargaining table post-war. Which means they could probably get the Suez back by just going to America and promising to be very good anti-communist boys if America (which was already not hugely fond of the British and French colonial empires and only grudgingly kept the Vietnamese down post-war because the French were at serious risk of going over to the Soviets after the whole shebang) would be a loving sugar daddy and strong-arm the Brits into giving it back.
Basically, if Egypt's in a situation where they can win the war militarily, they probably don't need to go to war in the first place.