Egyptian army pay disparity between soldiers and officers dwarfed even the Ottoman’s extreme gap

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• Egyptian army pay disparity between soldiers and officers exceeded the Sultan’s by 8 times (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian officers were denied all military command and intelligence (similarity 0.86)
• Top Egyptian officials debated army structure, officer ratios, and ethnic composition in consultation. (similarity 0.85)
• The Egyptian army resembled pre-nationalist European mercenary armies held together by pay and force. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian army discipline shifted from brutal force to abstract internalized controls (similarity 0.82)
• The Sudanese servant stereotype enforced Ottoman-era Egyptian social boundaries. (similarity 0.81)
• Army performance depended on officer-men relations more than on Ibrahim’s leadership (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive (similarity 0.80)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.79)
• By 1820 Mehmed Ali’s rule had brought unprecedented poverty and misery to Egyptian peasants (similarity 0.79)
• Disabled civil servants in Egypt also received no pension and faced dismissal (similarity 0.79)
• Early Egyptian desertions stemmed from discipline problems, not low pay (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian writers distinguished humane English colonization from genocidal imperial conquests. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian dramatists imagined Egyptian servants as kin but Sudanese servants as outside the nation. (similarity 0.79)