French mass arrests replenished rebel ranks while destroying the original leadership.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership; French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331

Related

• Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership (similarity 0.97)
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete (similarity 0.95)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.86)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.81)
• French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support (similarity 0.80)
• French operations had reduced the interior A.L.N. to 8,000 scattered men (similarity 0.79)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.78)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership #corroborates (1.00)
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331