This thesis explores the strategy followed by the American military government in overcoming Moro resistance in the Philippines from 1903-1913. A chapter is devoted to the period of each of the three Military Governors of Moro Province, Generals...
In the spring of 1902, the U.S. military command sent 40-year-old Captain John Joseph Pershing to Lanao Lake of Mindanao in the southern island of the Philippines. Pershing considered the Moros were allegedly savages who valued nothing but force....
The two main sections of this document on public safety in the Philippines address law enforcement before and after warfare. For before the war, topics include the origins and development of the Philippine Constabulary, contemporary organization...
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 ended the Cold War. This resulted in a change of the United States National Security Strategy from containment of communist aggression to engagement worldwide to protect national interests. “Global...
In 1902, MAJ Robert Bullard was given the mission to civilize the Moros around Lake Lanao in the Southern Philippines. MAJ Bullard was an enthusiastic and motivated officer. He understood that advancement in the military ranks was not achieved...
This document on the Philippines addresses geographical and social backgrounds of the country, with information describing the land (boundaries and frontier districts, and territorial divisions) and the people (population statistics, cultural...
The Muslim insurgency in Southern Philippines has gone on for decades. The efforts to resolve it is heavily influenced by sociocultural dynamics that have developed and prevailed through the years. The Philippine military understands that awareness...
This study deals with the historical evolution of the Muslim uprising in Mindanao and how the present Muslim secessionist groups; the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),...
Leonard Wood served as a Military Governor in Cuba from 1898 (Santiago) and 1899 to 1902, later as the Military Governor of the Moro Province in the Philippines from 1903 to 1906, and eventually as Governor General for the Philippines until his...
Contains documentary appendices, including information on the guerrilla resistance movement in the Philippines, Intelligence activities in the Philippines during Japanese occupation and operations of the Military Intelligence Section, the Allied...
In this Civil Affairs handbook, agriculture in the Philippines is featured. Parts include: general factors affecting agriculture; pre-war agricultural production; agricultural foodstuffs; social conditions pertaining to Philippine agriculture;...
Subjects in this Civil Affairs document about the natural resources in the Philippines include mining, timber and lumbering, fisheries and game, and water and water power.
This is a study of economic conditions in the Philippine Islands, with particular reference to present and future requirements for public utility service, including the manufacture and distribution of ice, as well as power-consuming industries such...
Education is the focus of this Civil Affairs handbook on the Philippines. Historical background is given on Spanish, U.S., and Commonwealth periods, as well as education institutions and literacy (names/locations of universities, extent of...
This historical study documents the resistance of the Filipinos to the Japanese on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines during World War II and discusses the contribution which American servicemen and civilians made to the guerrilla fighting....
This is a study of the present puppet government in the Philippines. The origins of the government, the constitutional basis upon which it rests, the structural outlines of the Office of President, of the Assembly, and of the Judiciary, the conduct...
Many errors in the decision making process occurred during the battle of Mogadishu. The
unfortunate results of those poor decisions were 18 U.S forces KIAs. Similar to Somalia was the
loss of life that occurred in the Philippines during a mission...
The question is asked “Should military professionals take time out of their busy schedules to study military history?” The answer to this is implied by George Santayana who wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...
The U.S. Army conducted its initial counterinsurgency in the Philippines from 1898 to 1913
as part of the United States’ expansion into Asia. While the publicized goal was to liberate the
Filipinos from Spain as part of the Spanish-American War,...
During the 1870s in the American Southwest the Native Indian tribes were sent to Indian reservations. Starting in 1877 an Indian by the name of Victorio decided to leave the reservation system. By doing so he was breaking American laws and...