For Bigeard, like the others, the "discovery" of subversive warfare had been a turning-point in his career, and he had arrived in Algeria in 1955 inculcated with the belief that Indo-China had been one battle in the Communist struggle for global domination of which this new present campaign was probably a further instalment.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 508