Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria

Evidence

Security operations were interrupted by the withdrawal of the paras for the Suez adventure, succeeded by the serious jolt to morale caused by the debacle. From the point of view of the ordinary French combatant, if there was any change in the “war that was not a war” it lay in its ever-increasing brutality, perhaps especially marked since the Philippeville massacres and Abane’s subsequent espousal of total terror. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sakiet’s fallout made the Algerian army feel betrayed by Paris.; The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512; Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria

Related

• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.90)
• Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons (similarity 0.88)
• French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.86)
• Sakiet’s fallout made the Algerian army feel betrayed by Paris. (similarity 0.84)
• The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. (similarity 0.83)
• Suez delivered captured Western arms to the F.L.N. and bolstered its morale. (similarity 0.83)
• The French army’s 1940 humiliation fueled its determination not to lose Algeria. (similarity 0.82)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.82)
• Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. (similarity 0.82)
• Dien Bien Phu humiliated the French army more than any postwar Western defeat (similarity 0.81)
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Dien Bien Phu humiliated the French army as badly as 1940 did (similarity 0.81)
• More soldiers cited French atrocities than war hardship as their worst Algerian experience (similarity 0.81)
• Delouvrier’s withdrawal from Algiers demoralized the insurgents (similarity 0.81)
• The 1940 defeat fatally undermined French prestige in Algerian Muslim eyes (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality #corroborates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512
• Winning militarily while losing politically doomed the French army in Algeria #exemplifies (0.60)