The modern army built in 1820-1 enabled Ali’s expansion.

Evidence

Gradually the authorities came to realize that what was needed was a system of control and surveillance that would be similar to that reached to circumvent the role of the village shaykhs reviewed in the last chapter. Rather than depending on sentry guards and bedouin patrols catching deserters, the aim was to imprint on the minds of the soldiers the idea of internment in the first place and to subject them to a regime of surveillance that would make obedience and discipline seem natural and be habitually practiced. That system, it was hoped, would target the minds of the recruits and not only their bodies; a system that would, in the words of an eighteenth-century French military thinker, bind them “by the chain of their own ideas” rather than “constrain them with iron chains.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 664 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ali founded his conscript army in 1820-1 to secure his rule against Istanbul; Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 70; Mehmed Ali repurposed assembled troops toward Acre when Ottoman requests lapsed (+3 more)

Related

• Ali founded his conscript army in 1820-1 to secure his rule against Istanbul (similarity 0.91)
• Within roughly a decade Egypt replaced Mamluk-style warriors with a trained modern army (similarity 0.90)
• Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt’s modern army was founded through conscription in 1820–21 (similarity 0.88)
• Mehmed Ali conscripted even self-maimed men into his army and projects (similarity 0.86)
• Mehmed Ali built a modern conscript army in roughly ten years (similarity 0.85)
• Fear of removal drove Mehmed Ali to build a conscript army in 1820-21. (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s conscript army drove the creation of the modern Egyptian state (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s army founded Egyptian nationalism through control practices, not enlightenment. (similarity 0.84)
• Conscription-based army provisioning drove Egypt’s modern state formation (similarity 0.82)
• Mehmed Ali’s 130,000-man army forced unprecedented state centralization in Egypt (similarity 0.82)
• Syria’s two million people attracted Mehmed Ali’s conscription plans (similarity 0.82)
• The army’s surveillance and control practices, not enlightenment ideas, founded modern Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Military modernization required first destroying Mamluk power in Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Mehmed Ali’s army was an institution of coercive power that transformed Egyptian society (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The army’s reliance on central supply and conscription created Egypt’s modern state #expands (0.90)
• Mehmed Ali repurposed assembled troops toward Acre when Ottoman requests lapsed #expands (0.85)
• Mehmed Ali’s army shifted from guarding against desertion to imprinting discipline on soldiers’ minds #expands (0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 664
• Mehmed Ali conscripted even self-maimed men into his army and projects #exemplifies (0.70)