Challe’s plan denied the F.L.N. sanctuary in mountain and night
Evidence
In contrast to this, Challe adopted as his guiding principle the slogan “Neither the djebel nor the night must be left to the F.L.N.” … Once hit, a rebel unit must be hit again, and remain hit; the army must penetrate the querencia where—like a fighting bull—it was at home, and stay there, driving it out into unknown and unfriendly territory. Life must be made enduringly unendurable for the moudjahiddine. The hunter must become the hunted. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1006
Categorization
- DEFINE: The chapter’s title slogan is defined here as a concrete military doctrine.
- SEED: The ‘neither the mountain nor the night’ doctrine could anchor an essay on counterinsurgency thinking about enemy sanctuary in terrain and darkness.
- XREF: connects to: French offensives shattered the F.L.N.’s interior command-and-control network by 1959