What is Plan Challe?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Plan Challe | width = | partof = [[Algerian War]] | image = | image_size = 314 | alt = | caption = French Soldiers entering a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky%20H-34 Sikorsky H-34] during Plan Challe. | date = 6 February 1959 – 6 April 1961 | place = [[Algeria]] | coordinates = <!--Use the {{coord}} template --> | map_type = | map_relief = | map_size = | map_marksize = | map_caption = | map_label = | territory = | result = {{ublist|Decisive French military victory<ref>Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World) by Martin Evans, page 180</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233032763_The_Challe_Plan_Vain_Yet_Indispensable_Victory</ref><ref>La guerre moderne by Roger Trinquier, page 256</ref>}} * Destruction of the FLN as a fighting force * End of major combat operations in Algeria * The fight continues after the battle of Djebel Boukhil | status = | combatants_header = | combatant1 = {{flagicon|France}} [[French Fourth Republic|France]] | combatant2 = [[Image:Flag of Algeria.svg|25px]] [[FLN]] | combatant3 = | commander1 = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Challe Maurice Challe] | commander2 = M'Hamed Bougara ([https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Hamed_Bougara fr])<br>Mohamed Tahar Abidi{{WIA}}<br>Benali Boudghène{{POW}}<br>Abderrahmane Mira{{Surrender}} | commander3 = | units1 = | units2 = | units3 = | strength1 = 450,000<ref>{{cite web | url=http://guy.perville.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=99 | title=L'Armée française au combat, de 1956 à 1962 (1992) }}</ref> | strength2 = 60,000 | strength3 = | casualties1 = 10,000 killed | casualties2 = 26,000 killed<br>10,800 prisoners<br>20,800 arms capture<br>wounded and number of desertions unknown but presumably heavy | casualties3 = | notes = | campaignbox = }} '''Plan Challe''' or '''Challe Plan''' was a [[France|French]] military operation during the [[Alger