Military victory in the Battle of Algiers ultimately aided F.L.N. long-term goals.

Evidence

But to the most simpleminded member of the G.P.R.A. it must have been self-evident that one of the most important rounds in the war had been won, on the brink of military defeat. To his hard-pressed djounoud of the interior, the F.L.N. Minister of Defence, Belkacem Krim, issued a communiqué declaring: “Your struggle has obliged the enemy to talk of self-determination, thus renouncing the oft-repeated myth of Algérie française. His retreat is the fruit of your efforts.” The principle of “self-determination” conceded, all the F.L.N. had to do now was to fight an obdurate battle to ensure that they, and no one else, would be the interlocuteur valable with whom de Gaulle would be forced to negotiate it. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1061 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Torture was effective in winning the short-term battle of Algiers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 608; The F.L.N.’s defeat in Algiers forced a strategic pivot that later yielded victory; Regroupment camps won militarily but drove Algerians into F.L.N. ranks (+7 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. won its main war goal despite impending military defeat (similarity 0.93)
• The F.L.N. achieved its original war objectives as framed at Soummam. (similarity 0.92)
• The FLN won self-determination just when it faced military defeat (similarity 0.91)
• The F.L.N. won the decisive political round just as the army defeated it militarily (similarity 0.90)
• Melun gave the F.L.N. a political victory over de Gaulle. (similarity 0.86)
• Rejecting the paix des braves is what ultimately let the F.L.N. win (similarity 0.83)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• The Battle of Algiers marked the end of any possibility of negotiated settlement (similarity 0.83)
• The French army won militarily while losing the political and world battle (similarity 0.83)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• Torture won the Battle of Algiers but lost the war for France (similarity 0.81)
• Political struggle continues after military defeat on political terrain (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. hard-liners believed French weakness made continued fighting the winning strategy (similarity 0.81)
• Soummam’s military doctrine produced the F.L.N.’s catastrophic Battle of Algiers (similarity 0.81)
• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. won the decisive political round just as the army defeated it militarily #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1061
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #corroborates (0.80)
• The F.L.N. won its main war goal despite impending military defeat #corroborates (0.70)
• The F.L.N. achieved its original war objectives as framed at Soummam. #expands (0.60)