French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N.

Evidence

If one could draw up a balance-sheet for that first winter of the war in terms of rebel manpower alone, on the debit side the “old guard” had been largely mopped-up; on the credit side there was a plentiful substitution of new recruits resulting from the indiscriminate mass arrests in the cities and overzealous ratissages in the bled. But this remained to some extent a potential, rather than actual, asset. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N.; French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N.; French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 348 (+5 more)

Related

• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.95)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.91)
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete (similarity 0.90)
• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.88)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.87)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.87)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.87)
• French mass arrests replenished rebel ranks while destroying the original leadership. (similarity 0.86)
• Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership (similarity 0.84)
• French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support (similarity 0.83)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.83)
• Guerrilla warfare made French suppression of the insurgency fail (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. attrition tactics stalled the war in the Aurès and frustrated the French (similarity 0.82)
• Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France (similarity 0.81)
• The army’s ambiguous pacification strategy left it unsuited to counterinsurgency (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.85)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 348
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331