Counterinsurgency doctrine forced officers to presume every civilian a suspect or leave

Evidence

Either you consider a priori that every Arab, in the country, in the street, in a passing truck is innocent until he’s proven the contrary; and permit me to tell you that if that is your attitude … you will immediately be posted, because the parents of reservists one has had killed don’t like it, and will write to their deputies that you’re a butcher.… Or you will … consider that every Arab is a suspect, a possible fellagha … because that, my dear sir, is the truth.… But once you’re here, to pose yourself problems of conscience — and treat possible assassins as presumed innocents — that’s a luxury that costs dear, and costs men, dear sir, young men themselves also innocent, and our own.… — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later debates over whether the Algerian war’s torture and collective punishment were systematic or ‘excesses’ — the dichotomy presented here shows they were institutionalized. — connects to: Counterinsurgency doctrine requires soldiers to serve as nation builders and warriors simultaneously — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 423; Prison functions as a recruitment and training centre for insurgencies — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 350

Related

• Counterinsurgency doctrine requires soldiers to serve as nation builders and warriors simultaneously (similarity 0.86)
• Prison functions as a recruitment and training centre for insurgencies (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Counterinsurgency doctrine requires soldiers to serve as nation builders and warriors simultaneously #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 423
• Prison functions as a recruitment and training centre for insurgencies #complicates (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 350