Army performance depended on officer-men relations more than on Ibrahim’s leadership

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• Soldiers understood officer relations through personal acquaintance rather than rank hierarchy. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian army discipline shifted from brutal force to abstract internalized controls (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian officers were denied all military command and intelligence (similarity 0.82)
• Acre fell to Ibrahim’s army because the entire assault was executed according to plan. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian army pay disparity between soldiers and officers dwarfed even the Ottoman’s extreme gap (similarity 0.81)
• The Sultan mobilized an 80,000-man army but Ibrahim still crushed it at Konia. (similarity 0.81)
• Mehmed Ali preferred Sultan Selim’s army model over Napoleon’s for organizing his forces (similarity 0.80)
• Obeah men organized rebellions by administering oaths and protective charms. (similarity 0.80)
• Osman consoled his shocked ministers and prioritized a smooth transition. (similarity 0.80)
• Top Egyptian officials debated army structure, officer ratios, and ethnic composition in consultation. (similarity 0.80)
• Muhammad Ali deployed diverse officers to classify the Sudan. (similarity 0.80)
• The Sudan invasion primarily aimed to capture men for the army (similarity 0.80)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.79)
• A war of position rests on the whole industrial-organisational rear, not just trenches (similarity 0.79)