French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N.; French mass arrests replenished rebel ranks while destroying the original leadership.; French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (+4 more)

Related

• French mass arrests replenished rebel ranks while destroying the original leadership. (similarity 0.95)
• Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership (similarity 0.93)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.90)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.89)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.85)
• French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support (similarity 0.83)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.81)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• French operations had reduced the interior A.L.N. to 8,000 scattered men (similarity 0.80)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.79)
• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.79)
• French soldiers retaliated against Arab civilians with mass killing after rebel attacks (similarity 0.79)
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy (similarity 0.78)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521