Ottoman armies had weapons and resources but lacked the new disciplinary order

Evidence

The British military advisor attached to the Turkish forces that fought the French considered the Ottomans excellently armed and supplied, lacking only the new system of discipline. ‘They have fine men,’ he wrote, ‘excellent horses, good guns, plenty of ammunition and provisions and forage, and in short great abundance of all the materials required to constitute a formidable army, but they want order and system.’ — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 653