French commandos adapted katiba tactics to hunt rebels and cut their supply lines.

Evidence

On the ground, the expanded harki units forming the nucleus of Challe’s Commandos de Chasse showed themselves contributing more effectively than ever before—or afterwards. Modelled on the katibas themselves, the Commandos would strike off into the djebel for days at a time, living off the land and at the same time severing the adversary from his sources of supply, ruthlessly hunting down the hunter. They were constantly in radio communication with Challe’s command post, and immediately contact was made with a katiba the Commandos would bring down helicoptered shock troops from the Réserve Générale to hem it in from all sides. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1012

Categorization

• XREF: The French mirroring rebel guerrilla tactics echoes a recurring theme of counter-insurgency across the book.

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