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10 - (8-13) - 09 PI War
10 - (8-13) - 09 PI War
10 - (8-13) - 09 PI War
US strat in 1899
• benevolent assimilation: defuse filipino hostility to US occupation
• Naval blockade: isolate insurgents from foreign help, preven them from moving troops , money both
between islands and along coast
• conventional ops: smash aguinaldo's army in central Luzon
• try to prevent the rest of the islands from combining
guerilla weaknesses
• dependent on local connections
• you would know who's not supposed to be there...the insurgents are you neighbors
• rarely cooperate with other guerrilla bands, often rivalry between leaders
• poor weapons, untrained troops
• no sanctuaries or secure areas
• no capacity for large-scale ops
• one informant can compromise entire organization
• taxation, recruitment, violence alienate the pop and local elites
counterinsurgency: civil-mil
• schools, roads, econ reforms, medical funded by US\
• schools kind of a form of social control
• civil government, police provide stability
• protection against bandits
Counterinsurgency: repression
• punitive raids> burning crops and houses, imprisonment
• enforced local cooperation – requiring police and political leadership
• encouraging inter-tribal and inter-toewn rivalry
• harder policy – december 1900 directed against filipinos who aided cuerrillas
summary:
• most suffessufnl US counterinsurgency campaing
• anti-imperialsit mvy portrayed as brutal war of conquest this is the US history “txtbook” version
• US army paid no attention to lessons of PI was until 03, when it found itself once again an occupying mil
force trying