It was their ambitious aim to sever its tenuous communications with the rest of Algeria, spark off a general uprising there, and ultimately (according to Ben Bella) make it Algeria’s “principal revolutionary stronghold”.

XREF: Connects to accounts of the Algerian War and how insurgent groups choose geographically isolated strongholds. QUESTION: Was Kabylia's mountainous, isolated terrain the reason it was chosen for severing communications?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 265