Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front

Evidence

The episodes marked the beginning of what was in effect a kind of civil war, and another of those “secret wars” fought behind the scenes of the main battle-front — savage, mean and without quarter — of which the first round had been won by the O.A.S. For the time being they appeared once again masters of Algiers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1495

Categorization

• XREF: The extra layer of conflict — terrorists vs. state vs. counter-terrorists — echoes the ‘secret wars’ framing used throughout the book. — connects to: Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 14

Related

• Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history (similarity 0.83)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.82)
• The full truth of the Algerian war may now be permanently unknowable to anyone (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War proved too recent for any definitive historical account (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.80)
• French Algérie served as a defensive bulwark against Soviet influence (similarity 0.80)
• French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.79)
• French officers framed Algeria as the next instalment of a global communist struggle (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.79)