Military success on the battlefield coexisted with a sense that political betrayal was imminent.

Evidence

From the French army’s point of view, their tragedy was that at various points they could see with agonising clarity (and not without reason) that they were winning the war militarily. But (not unlike the American commanders in Vietnam) it was not given them to perceive that, at the same time, their chances of winning the war politically and on the wider world stage were growing ever slimmer. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1653 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Army paranoia saw negotiations as surrender and betrayal by politicians.; Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria; The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1653 (+5 more)

Related

• The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle (similarity 0.90)
• Political struggle continues after military defeat on political terrain (similarity 0.90)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.89)
• A militarily victorious counterinsurgency can still lose due to non-battlefield factors (similarity 0.89)
• French counterinsurgency repeatedly traded military advantage for political costs (similarity 0.88)
• The political moment must always prevail over the military in strategy (similarity 0.87)
• The FLN won self-determination just when it faced military defeat (similarity 0.85)
• Army paranoia saw negotiations as surrender and betrayal by politicians. (similarity 0.85)
• Military defeat of guerrilla bands shifted rather than ended the revolution’s political impact (similarity 0.85)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. won the decisive political round just as the army defeated it militarily (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. won its main war goal despite impending military defeat (similarity 0.84)
• Military pacification ended and politics dominated as the war wound down (similarity 0.84)
• Military defeat of the rebellion coincided with its growing political entrenchment among civilians (similarity 0.83)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle #expands (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1653
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #expands (0.85)
• A militarily victorious counterinsurgency can still lose due to non-battlefield factors #expands (0.80)
• Military defeat of the rebellion coincided with its growing political entrenchment among civilians #corroborates (0.75)
• French counterinsurgency repeatedly traded military advantage for political costs #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 693