Security operations were interrupted by the withdrawal of the paras for the Suez adventure, succeeded by the serious jolt to morale caused by the debacle. From the point of view of the ordinary French combatant, if there was any change in the "war that was not a war" it lay in its ever-increasing brutality, perhaps especially marked since the Philippeville massacres and Abane's subsequent espousal of total terror.

XREF: Connects to the broader arc of French counterinsurgency in Algeria and the escalation dynamics between FLN terror and French reprisals.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 512