Civil government progressively surrendered civilian functions to the army in Algeria.

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 army viewed any negotiated ceasefire as toppling its war effort in Algeria; Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria; Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 114 (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. (similarity 0.89)
• By late 1956 both France’s military and diplomatic options in Algeria had failed (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. (similarity 0.86)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.81)
• Military defeat of the rebellion coincided with its growing political entrenchment among civilians (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial Algeria’s local rule fused military and civilian power. (similarity 0.80)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.80)
• Modern Algeria is inseparably the child of wartime Algeria (similarity 0.80)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.80)
• Armed struggle restored meaning to Algerian life and death (similarity 0.79)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.79)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 114
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #expands (0.65)
• Military defeat of the rebellion coincided with its growing political entrenchment among civilians #corroborates (0.65)
• Colonial Algeria’s local rule fused military and civilian power. #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 90
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 685