De Gaulle sought army success to reconcile it to Algerian independence

Evidence

As Raymond Aron had noted perceptively, that deep ingrained sense of past humiliations had to be exorcised, and “If the army could achieve an incontestable success, it might be less hostile to the creation of an Algerian state.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the French defeat/humiliation theme running through the book’s account of 1940 and imperial decline. — connects to: De Gaulle symbolically asserted civilian control over the military in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 953; Algeria’s 1959 campaign rehearsed the Ludendorff pattern of battlefield success and strategic failure; December’s lesson reshaped de Gaulle’s subsequent Algeria policy (+10 more)

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• Algeria’s 1959 campaign rehearsed the Ludendorff pattern of battlefield success and strategic failure (similarity 0.88)
• Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise (similarity 0.86)
• De Gaulle’s conciliatory gestures angered the army while winning no concessions from the F.L.N. (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle’s pursuit of national grandeur required sacrificing Algeria. (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle publicly promised the army France would stay in Algeria in early 1960. (similarity 0.84)
• Army officers saw the Algerian war as both career security and a noble cause. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s Algeria offensive aimed partly to distract the army from politics (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s political successes could not translate into any Algerian peace progress (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.83)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• The French army’s will to win sprang from 1940 humiliation, not colonial ideals (similarity 0.83)
• The French army’s 1940 humiliation fueled its determination not to lose Algeria. (similarity 0.83)
• By 1956 the French army’s overriding aim became political, pushing Algérie française. (similarity 0.82)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.82)