Therefore, on this tangible and readily discernible evidence Challe could well claim to have been proved right in all his calculations. Yet, paradoxically, while the armed rebellion might be seen to be "withering away", at the same time the political imprint of the revolution was imposing itself more and more indelibly on the population. As the katibas disintegrated under Challe's pressure, their members would filter back to their own villages and often, far from abandoning the cause, they would there reinforce the political struggle by establishing new clandestine cells under the Organisation Politico-Administrative.

XREF: Parallels the classic counterinsurgency insight that crushing armed wings often disperses and radicalizes the political infrastructure into the population.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1228