Counterinsurgent double agents severed villagers’ food support from the A.L.N.

Evidence

In the maquis were also operating, with extraordinary fearlessness, Captain Léger and a section of his bleus; their double-agent activities, as usual, were so successful that villagers refused any longer to give food supplies to the A.L.N., not knowing whether they were true moudjahiddine or Léger’s turncoats. Conditions in the field became terrible, with men dying as often from hunger as from enemy bullets. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1014 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Since 1955, many farms belonging to European settlers have been used by turns as infirmaries, refuges, or relay stations. When the French troops, in the course of their forays, began to make a habit of systematically destroying the grain reserves of the Algerian population, the A.L.N. decided to stock their supplies on the farms of Europeans. Thus several farms belonging to Europeans were transformed into A.L.N. granaries, and at nightfall sections of the A.L.N. units could be seen coining down from the mountains to take delivery of sacks of wheat or semolina. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 526 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The A.L.N. reached peak military strength in 1958 despite heavy losses; Challe’s net starved the A.L.N. into losing the operational initiative; French double-agent infiltration starved the A.L.N. by making villagers withhold supplies. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1014 (+2 more)

Related

• French double-agent infiltration starved the A.L.N. by making villagers withhold supplies. (similarity 0.94)
• Regroupement bred resistance even as it hampered the A.L.N. militarily. (similarity 0.83)
• European settler farms served as A.L.N. granaries after French grain destruction (similarity 0.82)
• The A.L.N. reached peak military strength in 1958 despite heavy losses (similarity 0.80)
• Challe’s net starved the A.L.N. into losing the operational initiative (similarity 0.80)
• French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support (similarity 0.80)
• The army’s ambiguous pacification strategy left it unsuited to counterinsurgency (similarity 0.79)
• The regroupment policy displaced over a million Algerian villagers into camps with scandalous conditions. (similarity 0.79)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.78)
• The French army’s heavy-handed countermeasures alienated even sympathetic observers (similarity 0.78)
• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.78)
• France regrouped a million Algerians to sever the army from the people (similarity 0.78)
• French regroupement policy relocated over a million Algerian peasants into guarded camps. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• French double-agent infiltration starved the A.L.N. by making villagers withhold supplies. #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1014
• European settler farms served as A.L.N. granaries after French grain destruction #complicates (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 526
• Regroupement bred resistance even as it hampered the A.L.N. militarily. #complicates (0.30)