Top Egyptian officials debated army structure, officer ratios, and ethnic composition in consultation.

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• Egyptian army pay disparity between soldiers and officers dwarfed even the Ottoman’s extreme gap (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian officers were denied all military command and intelligence (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian army discipline shifted from brutal force to abstract internalized controls (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt’s new army structure was designed through top-level consultation including foreign officers like Sèves (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive (similarity 0.81)
• Army performance depended on officer-men relations more than on Ibrahim’s leadership (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian conscripts were identified by regimental numbers rather than names (similarity 0.78)