“Peterson situates the Algerian War not as a tragic aberration or a final spasm of colonial violence, but as a formative moment in global military thinking . “The doctrines that emerged from Algeria did not end with the French defeat in 1962. They travelled outward, shaping how western militaries understood insurgency, stability, and governance across the Cold War world and beyond.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51