Anti-O.A.S. units were designed as autonomous forces outside normal hierarchy

Evidence

The new anti-O.A.S. formations will not belong to any classical hierarchy. They will be autonomous organisms, not subject to normal authority…. They will act largely outside the army and the police. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1497

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what the barbouze structure was — autonomous, secret, outside army and police.
• XREF: connects to: Drones centralize kill authority upward into hierarchy rather than handing control to machines — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 675; Organizations are not merely the extended arm of a power-holder; Only outcasts outside the system can mount uncooptable opposition — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 886

Broader Connections

• Organizations are not merely the extended arm of a power-holder #exemplifies (0.75)
• Drones centralize kill authority upward into hierarchy rather than handing control to machines #responds-to (0.30) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 675