“We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.” (Mao Tse-Tung, 1893-1976) My thesis is that the lack of local support eventually led to the Algerian Revolution. The Algerians gained independence through waging war in France and Algeria by angering the local populations and swaying public opinion.
The French effort to remain in control of one of her last colonial possessions was doomed from the onset with the initiated struggle for independence led by the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) in 1954. This group brought the war home to France. “The FLN also established a strong organization in France…Merciless ‘café wars’, resulting in nearly 5,000 deaths…” (McFly n.d.) This led to an internal destabilization in the French homeland. Later on the they formed the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, based in Tunis, and was “recognized by Morocco, Tunisia, and several other Arab countries, by a number of Asian and African states,......
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