With Ducournau the school of Indo-China arrived in Algeria. Setting up his headquarters in Arris, he immediately decided to pursue relentlessly the F.L.N. into the hills, living with the indigènes according to Mao’s often quoted principle of the “fish in water”, and taking with him as guides and trackers some of the loyal Chaouias that Jean Servier had recruited for the defence of Arris.

XREF: Links the Algerian war to Maoist guerrilla doctrine, a cross-domain inversion where colonial forces adopted the insurgent's own tactics — echoes later Vietnam-era applications.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 328