Challe was also at odds with his fellow conspirators as to whether the army should move simultaneously in France too; Challe argued for Algeria only, on the grounds (rightly) that there would be insufficient sympathy among the home-based forces, and secondly that any division of effort would interfere with his pet hobby-horse — continuation of war against the A.L.N.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1357