Searingly hot summers are succeeded almost immediately by the cutting winds of winter, and the Aurès has long suffered perhaps the most woeful poverty of all Algeria. Equally like the north-west frontier of India, which it closely resembles, it has from time immemorial been a land of unvanquishable guerrillas and banditry.

XREF: Connects comparative terrain analysis across Algeria and the Indian frontier, and echoes classic arguments that inaccessible mountain landscapes host persistent insurgency.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 146