Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy

Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (Arabic: محمد عبد الغني الجمسي, 9 September 1921-7 June 2003) was an Egyptian Field Marshal (Mushir) and The Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.

Early life
El Gamasy was born on 9 September 1921 in Batanoon, Monufia Governorate, Egypt. He was one of two brothers and five sisters. After high school, El Gamassy joined the Egyptian Military Academy and graduated in 1939.

October War
During the War of Attrition, on March 1969, then-President Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed el-Gamasy as chief of staff of the Suez Canal front. His appointment was part of a process of rooting out former general commander Abdel Hakim Amer's mostly incompetent loyalists with capable commanders, including Abdul Munim Riad, Saad el-Shazly and Ahmed Ismail. El-Gamasy later wrote that Nasser should have deconstructed Amer's autonomous web of control in the armed forces following the Egyptian military failiure during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

El-Gamasy was well known for being the director of operations for all forces participating in the 1973 October War. He was also appointed by Anwar Sadat as the head of the group that participated in the disengagement talks on October 28, at "Kilometer 101". Reportedly, he was sad for the lost souls at the war when the American secretary of state Henry Kissinger announced that the president Sadat agreed to pull the main part of the Egyptian forces from the east side of the Suez Canal in exchange of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the west side of the Suez Canal and retreat back into the depth of Sinai.

Death
On 7 June 2003, El Gamasy died in a hospital in Cairo after a long battle with illness.

Honors

 * Honor Military Star.
 * 1952 Liberation decoration.
 * 1958 United Republic decoration.
 * El-Gamsy was chosen as one of the best 50 military leaders in the world military history.