French regroupment policy severed the FLN from village support

Evidence

On the other side the conclusions drawn were that Agounennda was the kind of engagement the A.L.N. could only lose, and lose heavily, and that henceforth it must be avoided at all costs. The success of the Soustelle—Lacoste S.A.S. system in the villages (there were now nearly 600 S.A.S. administrators scattered across Algeria) and of the harsh regroupment policy also meant that the Wilayas were finding it increasingly difficult to obtain succour from the local populations for their military operations. Instead of relying on the mechtas and douars for supply depots and refuges, they were forced to use the caves that riddle the calcareous mountains of Algeria like the holes in a Gruyère cheese. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 791

Categorization

• XREF: Regroupment/resettlement echoes in later colonial counterinsurgency doctrine and in the broader literature on population-centric warfare. — connects to: French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331; Pre-Challe French tactics wasted vast firepower while letting the A.L.N. slip away intact; French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N.

Related

• Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (similarity 0.85)
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete (similarity 0.83)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• French regroupement policy relocated over a million Algerian peasants into guarded camps. (similarity 0.83)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• Regroupement bred resistance even as it hampered the A.L.N. militarily. (similarity 0.82)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.82)
• French operations had reduced the interior A.L.N. to 8,000 scattered men (similarity 0.82)
• Resettlement camps won ground militarily but created enduring political grievance for the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• Guerrilla warfare made French suppression of the insurgency fail (similarity 0.82)
• France regrouped a million Algerians to sever the army from the people (similarity 0.81)
• French army sweeping operations drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.81)
• The regroupment policy displaced over a million Algerian villagers into camps with scandalous conditions. (similarity 0.81)
• Pre-Challe French tactics wasted vast firepower while letting the A.L.N. slip away intact (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. #expands (0.60)
• Pre-Challe French tactics wasted vast firepower while letting the A.L.N. slip away intact #expands (0.45)
• French mass arrests replenished the F.L.N. ranks they meant to deplete #corroborates (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 331