Replacing Raoul Salan, French commander Maurice Challe was put in charge of handling the insurgency.

The order of the plan was to disperse the French units from their positions and attack ALN hideouts and strongholds.

The French army reinforced the old roadblocks on the borders of Algeria with new ones, and separated the ALN from the Muslim Algerian population through questionable methods.

While the ALN sustained heavy casualties, the Challe plan failed to achieve its objectives of destroying it and winning the Algerian people.

[7] In the following years, no major French operations would be conducted, the Évian Accords would be signed, and would end with the 1962 Algerian independence referendum.