By Charles R. Shrader
Utilizing lately published French legitimate files and quite a few different assets, this examine explains how the French military, so lately defeated via the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was once in a position to effectively defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels at the battlefield, whereas however wasting the battle on the convention desk. This French good fortune, among 1954 and 1962, used to be due largely to the very best logistical process of the French military and using the helicopter to augment French operational mobility. French counter-mobility measures, rather the development of seriously defended interdiction zones at the jap and western borders of Algeria, proved powerful opposed to the rebels. Such equipment basically bring to a halt the insurgent forces from their bases and from resources of provide situated outdoor Algeria, and for that reason strangled and destroyed the insurgent forces inside Algeria.No different paintings at the Algerian struggle focuses upon the function of logistics within the final result of the clash. The distinct statistical information and entire description and research of the logistical enterprises and techniques of either the French and the nationalist rebels are supplemented by way of first-class maps. This examine additionally presents valuable insights into the character of the wars of nationwide liberation and counter-insurgency doctrines that ruled army affairs within the mid-20th century.
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Army Handbook for Algeria, 381-411; Notions essentielles sur I Algerie, 7-9; Les grands secteurs de Vagriculture algerienne (Paris: Crete, 1958). 3. S. Army Area Handbook for Algeria, 400 (Table 11). Production of most major minerals declined during the course of the war in Algeria. In 1954 Algeria accounted for about three percent of world phosphate production (see table entitled "Resources Mineres de VAlgerie [Production en tonnes en 1954]" [Alger, 1954], in folder "lOe Region Militaire, Etat-Major Interarmees, 3e Bureau—Documentation sur VAlgerie, 1954-62," Dossier 1H2100 d.
However, through the skillful application of modern technology, the French were ultimately successful in sealing those borders and thus in denying to the rebels the ability to move men and supplies into and out of Algeria at will, as the Viet Minh had been able to do in Tonkin. Even so, the vastness of Algeria stretched French logistical resources to their limits. Support units were often required to cover a much larger area than their Tables of Organization and Equipment (TOE) prescribed, and the geography of Algeria exerted a marked influence on the positioning of stocks and direct-support units; it also required the continuous support of isolated, far-flung outposts, careful prestocking before operations, and massive resupply efforts during combat.
Only rarely were the rebels cloaked by fog, and even the rainy season did not substantially reduce French air operations. Algerian demographic and economic factors also favored the French. Though overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Moslem population of Algeria, the French were able to retain the support of a large part of the indigenous population. More important was the fact that most of the skilled manpower of Algeria was of European descent and thus not inclined to the rebel cause. The rebels were thus limited in their ability to produce their own military equipment and supplies, as had the Viet Minh.