Yet the soldiers, by resisting him and his authorities and by undermining his impressive, powerful structure, proved that they were not part of this project, that they were implicated in it against their will, and that they attempted to resist it by all means possible and imaginable.

Builds on: "Soldiers preserved zones of autonomy against totalizing disciplinary power."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1702