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[...] However, bringing back to life the history is not the only difficulty encountered by historians working on the Algerian War. In fact, in Algeria, Benjamin Stora indicates that there was problem with the representations, in the imaginaries'; here, the historian refers to the national novel that was built over the years in Algeria. A national novel is a way of telling history built around important figures, a somewhat biased version, heroized of the history that inevitably takes away its aspect factual. [...]
[...] To conclude, we will recall that we sought to understand if the Clausewitz model remained relevant for analyzing conflicts of the 21st century.1st century. We first saw that we are facing wars that challenge the Clausewitz model, but we then became interested in the persistent relevance of this model in order to read the conflicts. It will thus be interesting to see in the coming decades if the model continues to be interesting, for example to analyze the conflict currently involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. [...]
[...] In fact, groups such as Al-Qaeda, founded in 1987 or Daech, born from a split with Al-Qaeda in 2006, have become major actors in current armed conflicts. In addition, the objectives of these groups are not necessarily political but above all ideological, for Al-Qaeda and Daech, the goal is above all to spread Islamism, a political and radical Islam. This is accompanied by a fight against "Western drifts", against liberal democracies, particularly American; this fight is called the Jihad. However, terrorist groups are not the only new actors in the current panorama of conflicts, we also find organizations such as the United Nations which, with the objective of collective security - which is also a modern idea - can send troops to" blue helmets (UN soldiers) in order to impose or maintain peace. [...]
[...] However, it seems that the Clausewitz model could still be relevant to operate a reading of current conflicts. To do this, it seems essential to recall some elements of the Clausewitz model. In fact, it differentiated two types of war: a first - theoretically - which was that of absolute war that implies the use of unlimited of violence and a conclusion to peace through hegemony and a second, the real war -which as its name indicates is more concrete- and which implies this time the use of limited of violence and a conclusion to peace through negotiations and diplomacy. [...]
[...] He explains that "the pieds-noirs were in conflict with the sons of immigrants, who themselves clashed with the sons of harkis". Already it seems indispensable to specify who the people mentioned in the previous quote are. After independence, thousands of French from Algeria must flee and return to France, these are the pieds-noirs, the harkis are the Algerians who helped France and who, as a result, are seen as traitors by the former FLN fighters. Stora nuances his statement by specifying that the bearers of stories are also and above all in search of "history and identity". [...]
