French decolonization of Morocco and Tunisia handed the F.L.N. open frontiers

Evidence

But the greatest bonus for the F.L.N. cause, both in terms immediately of arms supplies and later of troop movements, came with France’s granting of independence to Morocco and Tunisia in March 1956, the paths to which had been pioneered by Mendès-France. From then on the F.L.N. had friendly and open frontiers to east and west, of which the Tunisian in particular was to provide benefits of inestimable value. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 404 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

With such an outlay in expenditure and effectives, the integrity of the Morice Line became the top military priority for the French during the winter of 1957–8. Its breaching had equally become the supreme objective for the F.L.N.; there were now some ten thousand A.L.N. troops, armed or in training, concentrated in the frontier zone, and the weapons beginning to flow into Tunisia from all over the world had totalled, over the three winter months, 17,000 rifles, 380 machine-guns, 296 automatic rifles, 190 bazookas, thirty mortars and over 100 million rounds of ammunition. Meanwhile, the Wilayas were asphyxiating for want of reinforcements. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 815 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Independent Morocco and Tunisia gave the F.L.N. sanctuaries that assured its survival.; Porous frontiers enabled FLN sanctuary and French political collapse.; France’s granting independence to Morocco and Tunisia in 1956 gave the F.L.N. open frontiers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 404 (+8 more)

Related

• France’s granting independence to Morocco and Tunisia in 1956 gave the F.L.N. open frontiers (similarity 0.97)
• Independent Morocco and Tunisia gave the F.L.N. sanctuaries that assured its survival. (similarity 0.95)
• FLN cross-border raids from Tunisia provoked French bombing of Sakiet (similarity 0.89)
• FLN units staged cross-border ambushes from Tunisian sanctuary (similarity 0.84)
• Bourguiba’s Tunisia was militarily decisive for F.L.N. survival (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian fighters in Tunisia outnumbered the infant Tunisian army. (similarity 0.84)
• Granting Tunisian and Moroccan independence without Algeria was a strategic error. (similarity 0.84)
• Tunisia faced simultaneous French and FLN military pressure (similarity 0.83)
• Foreign weapons flowed through Tunisia while the interior Wilayas asphyxiated without reinforcements. (similarity 0.82)
• Undelivered Moroccan weapons crippled the F.L.N.’s Oran operations (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian refugees in Tunisia outnumbered and threatened the Tunisian state (similarity 0.82)
• Without Bourguiba Tunisia the FLN would likely have been crushed militarily (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.81)
• Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise (similarity 0.81)
• The Morice Line cut off the interior Wilayas from all exterior support. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• France’s granting independence to Morocco and Tunisia in 1956 gave the F.L.N. open frontiers #corroborates (1.00) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 404
• Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise #expands (0.70)
• Foreign weapons flowed through Tunisia while the interior Wilayas asphyxiated without reinforcements. #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 815
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. #complicates (0.60)
• FLN cross-border raids from Tunisia provoked French bombing of Sakiet #expands (0.60)
• French officers regarded breaching Tunisia’s border as legitimate nineteenth-century pacification #exemplifies (0.50)
• Tunisia faced simultaneous French and FLN military pressure #corroborates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 768
• The Ben Bella hijacking backfired by pushing Tunisia and Morocco firmly behind the FLN. #corroborates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 487
• Algerian fighters in Tunisia outnumbered the infant Tunisian army. #exemplifies (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 700