the air war requiring dirty tactics like civilian bombings is LITERALLY the example given in Battle of Algiers

"Isn't it even more cowardly to attack defenseless villages with napalm bombs that kill many thousands of times more? Obviously, planes would make things easier for us. Give us your bombers, sir, and you can have our baskets."

Of course someone with the name French wouldn't understand, finding mass murder civil but revolutionary violence against the ruling class abhorrent comes with the name