The officer corps served the Pasha’s dynasty rather than any Egyptian nation

Evidence

More important than Ibrahim’s sentiments, though, was the very composition of the officer corps that he was leading which, as this chapter has tried to show, was ethnically, linguistically and culturally different from the soldiery. Like their leader, the officers in the Pasha’s army had no doubt that they were serving the Pasha and his family and had no sympathies in common with the men they were commanding. With their origins in different parts of the Ottoman world and having come to Egypt to seek employment in the Pasha’s army and bureaucracy, they tied their own destinies to that of the household they were fighting for. Like Ibrahim Pasha they, too, thought of the army as a dynastic army fighting the Pasha’s own wars, wars that they stood to benefit from since the army that was successful in those wars could give them a better, more lucrative employment and, arguably, a better and more prestigious social status in the new province they settled in, Egypt. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1393

Categorization

• XREF: Officers as mercenary careerists from across the Ottoman world ties into the reader’s interest in how the Egyptian army recruited its leadership outside Egypt itself. — connects to: Ibrahim Pasha saw his campaigns as fought for his father’s dynasty, not Egypt.; Egyptian conscripts saw their own officers as the enemy rather than the Ottomans — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1670; Officers in Mehmed Ali’s army behaved as mercenaries loyal to pay, not national identity (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1393

Broader Connections

• Officers in Mehmed Ali’s army behaved as mercenaries loyal to pay, not national identity #corroborates (0.70)
• Egyptian conscripts saw their own officers as the enemy rather than the Ottomans #expands (0.50) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1670
• Ottoman officers readily defected to serve in the Egyptian army #corroborates (0.40)