The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality

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

Categorization

• XREF: Names Abane’s ‘total terror’ doctrine — central to the reader’s concept-tracing of the war’s savage logic. — connects to: Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons; Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria; Algeria’s entanglement likely fuelled Mollet’s rush to Suez. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 493 (+6 more)

Related

• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.90)
• Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons (similarity 0.90)
• French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing. (similarity 0.86)
• The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s entanglement likely fuelled Mollet’s rush to Suez. (similarity 0.81)
• Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. (similarity 0.79)
• Suez delivered captured Western arms to the F.L.N. and bolstered its morale. (similarity 0.79)
• Suez destroyed Mollet’s Algerian policy while no rival would replace him (similarity 0.79)
• Suez and the Ben Bella affair destroyed Mollet’s Algerian policy. (similarity 0.79)
• 1956 marked the final year of French and British great-power status. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The 1956 Suez and Hungary crises triggered the New Left’s coalescence #corroborates (0.50)
• Stuart Hall regarded 1956’s Suez and Hungary crises as pivotal for him #corroborates (0.40)
• Anticolonialism drew Hall into Marxism only after 1956’s Suez and Budapest crises. #corroborates (0.40)