An infant bureaucracy could not sustain a 100,000-man scattered army

Evidence

Because the Pasha was very unrealistic in the demands he placed on his bureaucracy, the thousands of scribes and bureaucrats who were fulfilling his demands could not cope with what was asked of them. For a bureaucracy still in its infancy, sustaining an army of over 100,000 men scattered over wide areas of the Ottoman Empire was a daunting task that was not made any easier by the Pasha’s impossible targets and unrealistic deadlines. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 952

Because the Pasha was very unrealistic in the demands he placed on his bureaucracy, the thousands of scribes and bureaucrats who were fulfilling his demands could not cope with what was asked of them. For a bureaucracy still in its infancy, sustaining an army of over 100,000 men scattered over wide areas of the Ottoman Empire was a daunting task that was not made any easier by the Pasha’s impossible targets and unrealistic deadlines. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 952

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 952