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Cut his lines of communications. The amount of required killing/capturing/destruction is almost marginal in comparison to the effect; the enemy will likely withdraw (= broke his will to hold the...

Maybe you're just not aware what impression you leave with your writing?
I have issues with approaches to warfare that let me expect unnecessary hardships in the next war. To win by killing as many...

Killing is just one of many means of disarming the enemy leadership (and thereby reduce its repretoire and prospects to the point at which they give up).

Any focus on killing and neglect of more...

Algeria was different. Its coastal region was officially no colony - it was considered to be part (department) of France itself.

The waging of a colonial anti-insurgency war was the cardinal...

1) You liked metrics. Measurable stuff.
Show a metric to attempt to prove your point.

2) Common practice does not necessarily equal best practice.
The German states did not win against France in...

IIRC he admitted in a letter that he hadn't covered people's wars such as the Spanish insurgency properly yet. That was one of the things he had no time for left.

There's a huge difference between...

I do contend this.
The French won militarily, and lost politically/strategically.

Their basic assumption/assertion was that Northern Algeria was a province of France itself, not a colony. It was...

I am still under the impression that the population was the key in the Algerian Independence War.
The general population was quite unimportant, but the Europeans in Algeria (about 70% of them not...