French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly states the self-defeating logic that recurs throughout the reader’s tracking of resistance — repression breeds recruits. — connects to: France regrouped a million Algerians to sever the army from the people — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 99; Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks; France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (+8 more)
• SEED: Angles for an essay: how security ‘sweeps’ select for insurgent strategy across colonial wars.

Related

• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.89)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.87)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.87)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.85)
• France regrouped a million Algerians to sever the army from the people (similarity 0.84)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.83)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.82)
• French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support (similarity 0.81)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.81)
• Regroupement bred resistance even as it hampered the A.L.N. militarily. (similarity 0.80)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian rebels outmatched French columns using fire signals and village dogs (similarity 0.80)
• France’s effective suppression of opposition guaranteed it would later be surprised by resistance. (similarity 0.80)
• French operations had reduced the interior A.L.N. to 8,000 scattered men (similarity 0.80)
• Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #exemplifies (0.75)