British officer control of the Egyptian army suppressed Egyptian patriotic feeling.

Evidence

In the few Sudanese territories still held by Egypt after 1885, army command was monopolized by British officers, which cost Egyptian soldiers their sense of patriotism, forcing them to fight like automatons for the very people against whom they should have been rebelling. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 717

Categorization

• XREF: This is a key mechanism in the reader’s comparative question: British colonial tool (officer monopoly) produced a specific Egyptian experience distinct from direct rule in Sudan.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 717