In a certain incident 10,000 pairs of shoes were made in Egypt and promptly sent to the army in Syria only for it to be discovered that they were all so small as to fit only children's feet!

XREF: Connects to earlier claims about provisioning failures (loc 935, 937) and the army's economic infrastructure. Builds on: "Military provisioning failures undermined even empowered armies' effectiveness."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 941