The F.L.N.’s Algiers urban operations failed almost entirely on the opening night

Evidence

Greatly exacerbated by the defeat in Algiers and the forced withdrawal of the C.C.E. from the city, internal rifts had brought the F.L.N. leadership to the brink of disaster by the spring of 1957. Once again the basic issue lay in the contention between the “interior” and the “exterior”; and, once again, the figure of Ramdane Abane was at the storm centre. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 698 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Defeat in Algiers pushed the F.L.N. leadership toward internal collapse. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 698

Related

• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.94)
• Defeat in Algiers pushed the F.L.N. leadership toward internal collapse. (similarity 0.91)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.87)
• The hijacking saved the F.L.N. from an interior-exterior split (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. strike aimed to externalize Algeria’s conflict to the United Nations. (similarity 0.83)
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• Interior-exterior rivalry among leaders threatened the F.L.N. as much as French pressure. (similarity 0.81)
• French operations had reduced the interior A.L.N. to 8,000 scattered men (similarity 0.81)
• France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair (similarity 0.80)
• The hijacking unintentionally healed the FLN’s threatened internal split. (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. power struggles intensified as independence approached. (similarity 0.80)
• French offensives shattered the F.L.N.’s interior command-and-control network by 1959 (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. propaganda offered little discussion of future Algerian social aims. (similarity 0.79)
• Bandung’s condemnation of colonialism internationalized the Algerian conflict. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Defeat in Algiers pushed the F.L.N. leadership toward internal collapse. #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 698