Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512

Related

• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.90)
• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.88)
• French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.81)
• Suez delivered captured Western arms to the F.L.N. and bolstered its morale. (similarity 0.80)
• The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. (similarity 0.79)
• Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s entanglement likely fuelled Mollet’s rush to Suez. (similarity 0.78)
• Suez destroyed Mollet’s Algerian policy while no rival would replace him (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512