With typically careless improvidence, for instance, the plotters had neglected to consider that, in Oranie, where General Pouilly was hostile, his deputy, General Lhermitte, on whose support they vitally counted, would be away on leave.

DEFINE: Clarifies how military chains of command and regional hostility affected coup planning in Oranie during this historical period.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1348