The modern standing army replaced seasonal trade-based levies with permanent barracks life

Evidence

The new army, it was explained in an official Ottoman pamphlet, ‘should not, like the rest of our forces, be composed of sellers of pastry, boatmen, fishermen, coffee-house keepers, baccals, and others who are engaged in the thirty-two trades, but of well disciplined men’. An army was no longer to be thought of as an occasional body, brought together for seasonal campaigns. It was to be an organised force, created out of men compelled to live permanently together as a distinct community, continuously under training even when not at war. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 136 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Military discipline replaced armies composed of part-time tradesmen with a permanent, separate community. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 136; Barracks internment was the essential first step toward a professional standing army — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 658

Broader Connections

• Military discipline replaced armies composed of part-time tradesmen with a permanent, separate community. #corroborates (0.93) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 136