Plan Challe

Plan Challe
	Part of Algerian War
Date	6 February 1959 – 6 April 1961
Location	Algeria
Result	Decisive French military victory; Destruction of the FLN as a fighting force; End of major combat operations in Algeria; The fight continues after the battle of Djebel Boukhil;
Belligerents
France	FLN
Commanders and leaders
Maurice Challe	M'Hamed Bougara (fr); Mohamed Tahar Abidi (WIA); Benali Boudghène (POW); Abderrahmane Mira
Strength
450,000	60,000
Casualties and losses
10,000 killed	26,000 killed; 10,800 prisoners; 20,800 arms capture; wounded and number of desertions unknown but presumably heavy

Plan Challe or Challe Plan was a French military operation during the Algerian War. General Maurice Challe had the idea for the Challe Plan. It lasted from 6 February 1959 - 6 April 1961.

↑ Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World) by Martin Evans, page 180
↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233032763_The_Challe_Plan_Vain_Yet_Indispensable_Victory
↑ La guerre moderne by Roger Trinquier, page 256
↑ "L'Armée française au combat, de 1956 à 1962 (1992)".

[1] Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World) by Martin Evans, page 180

[2] ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/233032763_The_Challe_Plan_Vain_Yet_Indispensable_Victory

[3] La guerre moderne by Roger Trinquier, page 256

[4] "L'Armée française au combat, de 1956 à 1962 (1992)".

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Plan Challe

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