FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods.

Evidence

Persuasively he pointed out to Monteil how the French ratissages operations were “our best recruiting agent”, and after this extraordinary first meeting between a F.L.N. leader and a French official, Monteil left with the firm impression of “a man of faith, and of good faith, pushed to the limits by a lively sentiment of the injustice that has hit his people”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 348 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Then Manévy was transferred to Constantine where he witnessed a terrorist grenade attack on a 14 July parade. Several paras were wounded. One of Manévy’s age panicked, fired into the crowd, and killed a Muslim woman on a balcony. Next, a hundred of the paras, some evidently fortified with anisette, broke loose, heading towards the Casbah to avenge their wounded with shouts of “Les melons! Les melons!” Unable to find any Muslims, they first smashed up a Jewish shop. At the height of the ratonnade a large French civilian intervened angrily from a nearby billiard saloon: “I am Captain Bottier; I fought myself; I did thirty-seven jumps with the Resistance.… You band of little idiots — you’re doing exactly what the F.L.N. terrorists count on you doing.…” To Manévy, Captain Bottier disclosed that he was an S.A.S. officer in from the bled, adding, “Two months of work as an S.A.S. officer are wrecked in one evening like this.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French escalation was matched by rising FLN strength and expertise — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512; French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521; French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (+2 more)

Related

• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.87)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.87)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.86)
• Philippeville’s slaughter convinced the F.L.N. that terror paid strategically (similarity 0.85)
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy (similarity 0.85)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.85)
• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. (similarity 0.84)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals (similarity 0.83)
• The Philippeville massacre was a net gain for the F.L.N. despite its horror (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.83)
• French escalation was matched by rising FLN strength and expertise (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. #exemplifies (0.80)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. #exemplifies (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 348
• French escalation was matched by rising FLN strength and expertise #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521
• Forced assassination riveted F.L.N. recruits to the cause irreversibly #corroborates (0.60)