Challe’s revolt was driven by moral obligation to the harkis, not ideology.

Evidence

What he considered to be the disastrously missed opportunity of Si Salah, and de Gaulle’s double-dealing with the breakaway leaders of Wilaya 4, had deeply influenced him on his road to revolt. But most of all he was haunted by what he felt to be his crushing moral responsibility to the harkis he had levied, and to the other thousands of pro-French Muslims to whom — on de Gaulle’s instructions — he had given the repeated assurance: “France will never abandon you.” This was what, to Challe, really pushed him over the edge. “We were committed,” he told the author. “We had given our promises to the Arabs who had worked for us, and we simply could not let them down….We would have acted, even if I had thought there had been no chance of success — but I did think we had a chance of success.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1346

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the harkis’ ‘France will never abandon you’ promises and their post-independence fate — a theme that paid off earlier and recurs in chapters on the Evian accords.

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• Challe’s refusal to shed French blood fatally paralyzed his putsch (similarity 0.81)
• Challe planned a three-month military pacification and an oil-financed breakaway Algeria. (similarity 0.80)
• Challe came to believe de Gaulle had encouraged him to perjure himself (similarity 0.80)
• Challe confined the coup to Algeria to keep fighting the ALN (similarity 0.80)
• Harki recruitment depended on France’s pledge never to abandon Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Harki recruitment depended on de Gaulle’s implicit guarantee of French permanence (similarity 0.79)
• Challe aimed to change Gaullist policy, not remove de Gaulle (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s double-dealing with Si Salah’s breakaway F.L.N. faction pushed Challe toward revolt. (similarity 0.78)
• Challe believed Algeria was Europe’s lost bridge to Africa (similarity 0.78)
• Challe aimed to disrupt rather than annihilate the F.L.N. (similarity 0.78)
• Honour-based conscience burdens can push loyal generals into doomed revolt. (similarity 0.78)