By late 1956 both France’s military and diplomatic options in Algeria had failed

Evidence

Colonialism shuts its eyes to the real facts of the problem. It imagines that our power is measured by the number of our heavy machine guns. This was true in the first months of 1955. It is no longer true today. First of all, because other elements have their weight in the scales of history. Next, because machine guns and cannons are no longer the weapons of the colonialist alone. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 114 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956; Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria; Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. (similarity 0.94)
• Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front (similarity 0.89)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.88)
• Civil government progressively surrendered civilian functions to the army in Algeria. (similarity 0.87)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.86)
• Massive French troop increases failed to halt the rebellion’s spread in 1955-56. (similarity 0.85)
• Soustelle predicted France would lose Algeria on the home front, not militarily. (similarity 0.83)
• The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. (similarity 0.83)
• French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.82)
• Defeat in Algeria paradoxically produced a stronger France (similarity 0.82)
• French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s loss paradoxically produced a stronger postcolonial France (similarity 0.82)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• French colonial army campaigns bypassed both governors and Parliament. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 #contradicts (0.80)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #complicates (0.70)
• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 114
• Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front #qualifies (0.60)
• Mollet tripled French troop levels in Algeria to half a million in 1956 #expands (0.60)
• A coup plot against civil government in Algeria emerged in late 1956 #corroborates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 539
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. #qualifies (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 342