Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war.
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
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war; By late 1956 both France’s military and diplomatic options in Algeria had failed; The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (+6 more)
Related
- By late 1956 both France’s military and diplomatic options in Algeria had failed (similarity 0.94)
- Civil government progressively surrendered civilian functions to the army in Algeria. (similarity 0.89)
- Algeria would be lost on France’s interior political front, not on the military front (similarity 0.86)
- Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
- Algeria’s loss paradoxically produced a stronger postcolonial France (similarity 0.84)
- The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.84)
- Soustelle predicted France would lose Algeria on the home front, not militarily. (similarity 0.84)
- French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war (similarity 0.83)
- The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle (similarity 0.83)
- Defeat in Algeria paradoxically produced a stronger France (similarity 0.83)
- Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. (similarity 0.83)
- Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
- Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.81)
- The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.81)
- Algerian war manpower losses strained France’s economy more than military outlay (similarity 0.81)