It starts with an analysis of the regime of isolation and surveillance that was intended to mark off life on the training camps from civilian life outside the camps. It also seeks to contrast the new military legal codes that were intended to discipline the new recruits with civil laws that were applied in the countryside and to see how the army could be looked to as the kind of model for society to follow.

DEFINE: Defines the analytical framework: isolation/surveillance regime and distinct military legal codes mark training camps off from civilian life. Builds on: "Army discipline manufactured Egyptians' national identity rather than revealing it."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 123