 The publicity given to the brutal methods used by the army to win the Battle of Algiers, including the use of torture, strong movement control and curfew called "quadrillage" and where all authority was under the military, created doubt in France about its role in Algeria.What was originally "pacification" or a "public order operation" had turned into a colonial war accompanied by torture.During 1956 and 1957, the FLN successfully applied hit-and-run tactics in accordance with guerrilla warfare theory.