As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that will smoulder under the ash and which, at the first opportunity, will burst into a vast conflagration.

QUESTION: This colonial-era warning about Algeria raises questions about how occupation sustains insurgency over generations — worth exploring in modern counterinsurgency contexts.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 63