Plan Challe
| Plan Challe | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Algerian War | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
 France |
 FLN | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Maurice Challe |
M'Hamed Bougara Mohamed Tahar Abidi Benali Boudghène Abderrahmane Mira | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 450,000[4] | 60,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 7,000 killed |
26,000 killed 10,800 prisoners 20,800 arms capture wounded and number of desertions unknown but presumably heavy | ||||||
Plan Challe or Challe Plan was a French military operation during the Algerian War. General Maurice Challe had the idea for the Challe Plan. It lasted from 6 February 1959 - 6 April 1961.
Operation[edit]
In Plan Challe, the French Army attacked the FLN fighters. The French sent reserve units and conscript units to defend places in which they would not have to be moblie such as to protect roads. The elite forces never exceeded more than 20,000 soldiers.
Plan Challe was a series of sweeps into places in which the French army knew guerrilla fighters were hiding. The small groups of soldiers could move quickly so that the guerrillas had to fight them in rough country.
Aftermath[edit]
Plan Challe was a clear military victory for France. The FLN had only around 5,000 soldiers left because many of them had fled from Algeria to nearby countries like Morocco and Tunisia, where the FLN leadership was based. The fighters that did not flee Algeria were forced into hiding because the French military presence was overwhelming.[5]
Plan Challe helped France to win the Algerian War militarily and led to Charles de Gaulle on 29 June 1961 announcing on live television that fighting in Algeria was virtually over.[6] The military side of the conflict in Algeria had almost ended, but the political side of the conflict would continue.
References[edit]
- ↑ Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World) by Martin Evans, page 180
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233032763_The_Challe_Plan_Vain_Yet_Indispensable_Victory
- ↑ La guerre moderne by Roger Trinquier, page 256
- ↑ http://guy.perville.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=99
- ↑ War in Algeria: The French Experience https://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/martin.pdf
- ↑ Cairns, John (1962). "Algeria: The Last Ordeal". International Journal. 17 (2 Spring): 87–88. doi:10.1177/002070206201700201. S2CID 144891906.
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