Algeria is held since 1980 to ensure a degree of autonomy to the National People's Army to avoid increased dependence vis-à-vis foreign suppliers. A strategy that had allowed the National People's Army to ensure the supply of certain equipment at the time when the country was embargoed arms he needed to fight terrorism in the 1990s from some Western countries have prevented the takeover by radical Islamists. This strategy allows even today, as the global financial crisis continues, to avoid bottlenecks