Mr Morsi also cancelled a recent military order giving the generals special political privileges, including oversight of the drafting of a new constitution.

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The armed forces have indeed been shrunk, but not without hiccups: army strength, under the peace accords, was to be cut by a third, to 31, 000, but then the generals suddenly claimed it was only 35, 000 anyway, so much smaller cuts were in order.

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