• DOI:10.1080/01402390412331302635
Corpus ID: 154354671

France and the Algerian War: strategy, operations and diplomacy

@article{Alexander2002FranceAT,
  title={France and the Algerian War: strategy, operations and diplomacy},
  author={M. S. Alexander and J. Keiger},
  journal={Journal of Strategic Studies},
  year={2002},
  volume={25},
  pages={1 - 32}
}

M. S. Alexander, J. Keiger

Published 2002

Political Science

Journal of Strategic Studies

France's war in Algeria from 1954–62 has prompted new historical research and political polemics since 1992. Especially controversial has been an acknowledgement that torture was practised systematically, and the fact that French governments refused until 1999 to admit that Algeria was a real war, not just ‘a law and order problem’. Access to French archives, along with publication of memoirs and collections of letters by conscript troops, has permitted fresh social, cultural and literary… CONTINUE READING

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