These simple acts of negotiating and crossing boundaries, even though they were not as dramatic as desertion (which will be dealt with in the next chapter), were still quite alarming, for they undermined the whole logic of the modern army, a logic that saw the best way of disciplining and training an army in isolating it from the wider society and in drawing sharp distinctions between civilian and military lives.

XREF: Builds on the earlier contrast between coercive regulation and actual practice (e.g., loc 1108 'Camp security rules often broke down in actual practice' and loc 1109 'Ordinary soldiers perpetually crossed supposedly impermeable camp boundaries'). Pays off: "Ordinary soldiers perpetually crossed supposedly impermeable camp boundaries."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1171