A key advisor fiercely opposed the creation of a modern army
Evidence
When he informed Mahmud Bey, one of his closest advisors and later Director of the War Department (Cihadiye Nazɩrɩ) about his intention to create a modern army, he was so adamant in his rejection of the project and alarmed at its expected dangers that Mehmed Ali remembered the incident ten years later; S/1/48/3/161 on 1 Ra 1243/22 September 1827; see Rustum, ed. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 492
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Mehmed Ali’s advisors initially opposed a standing disciplined army (similarity 0.83)
- Mehmed Ali’s conscripted soldiers resisted his modernizing project (similarity 0.79)
- Military modernization required first destroying Mamluk power in Egypt (similarity 0.78)