Ottoman officers readily defected to serve in the Egyptian army

Evidence

The soldiers gradually came to see their own commanding officers and not the enemy they were fighting as the “other.” How does the nationalist discourse explain the fact that the Egyptian soldiers resisted serving in the army, allegedly the national institution, or that they saw their own officers and not the Ottoman army as the other? — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1670 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Foreign Ottomans entering service made up the officers’ third component; Egyptian soldiers served under Turkish officers in the reformed army; The officer corps served the Pasha’s dynasty rather than any Egyptian nation — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1393 (+4 more)

Related

• Egyptian conscripts saw their own officers as the enemy rather than the Ottomans (similarity 0.89)
• The officer corps served the Pasha’s dynasty rather than any Egyptian nation (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian soldiers served under Turkish officers in the reformed army (similarity 0.86)
• Foreign Ottomans entering service made up the officers’ third component (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali’s officers were foreign newcomers with no roots in Egypt (similarity 0.83)
• Turkish officers routinely abused and cheated their Egyptian conscript soldiers (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian army officers acted as mercenaries loyal to pay, not nationalists (similarity 0.81)
• Officers in Mehmed Ali’s army behaved as mercenaries loyal to pay, not national identity (similarity 0.80)
• Egypt’s army in Mehmed Ali’s era was not a national force. (similarity 0.80)
• Mehmed Ali’s Turkish-speaking officer corps felt no national loyalty to Egypt (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation (similarity 0.79)
• Mehmed Ali barred Arabic-speaking officers from high army and bureaucratic ranks (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ahmed Fevzi’s defection handed the Ottoman fleet to Mehmed Ali #exemplifies (0.80)
• Egyptian conscripts saw their own officers as the enemy rather than the Ottomans #complicates (0.50) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1670
• The Egyptian army did not function along national lines in this era. #expands (0.50)
• Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation #complicates (0.40)