Do you agree with Aguinaldo that the assassination of Antonio Luna is

beneficial for the Philippines’ struggle for Independence?

No, I don’t agree with Aguinaldo that the assassination of Antonio Luna
is beneficial for the Philippines’ struggle for Independence. Gen. Antonio Luna
was a great Military Strategist. He had been studying Military tactics since he
was 16 years old. Not only that, he knows what is the best fit for the
Philippines to have a modern and powerful military. So, if his plans were
successful. We may have the best and a powerful military to this time. These
are some reasons which I don’t agree about Aguinaldo’s statement.
The assassination of Gen. Antonio Luna by rivals in the Philippine
leadership, conventional military leadership was weakened. The Philippine
Army continued suffering defeats from the better-armed American Army
during the conventional warfare phase. The death of Gen. Antonio Luna was
not the end of the Filipino-American War but instead it only gave the
Americans great advantage on how they can win against Filipinos. As a matter
of fact, Aguinaldo suffered successive disastrous losses in the field, as he
retreated northwards. Aguinaldo decided to disperse his army and begin
conducting a guerilla war. Gen. Jose Alejandrino, one of Luna’s remaining
aides, stated in his memoirs that if Luna had been able to finish the planned
military camp in the Mountain Province and had shifted to guerilla warfare
earlier as Luna had suggested, Aguinaldo might have avoided having to run
for his life in the Cordillera Mountains. Luna’s death contributes to the
resulting fall of the Republic. The loss of Luna showed the existence of a lack
of discipline among the Filipino soldiers and it was a major weakness that
was never remedied during the war. Also, soldiers connected with Luna were
demoralized and as a result eventually surrendered to the Americans. The
ability to fight a conventional war rapidly diminished.
The death of Luna, the most brilliant and capable of the Filipino
generals at the time was a decisive factor in the fight against the American
forces. General Frederick Funston, who received the credit of capturing
Aguinaldo stated that Luna was the “ablest and most aggressive leader of the
Filipino Republic. “For Gen. James Franklin Bell, Luna “was the only general
the Filipino army had.” Gen. Robert Hughes remarked that “with the death of
Gen. Luna, the Filipino army lost the only Gen. they had. If only Gen. Antonio
Luna would still be alive there’s a great possibility that we will be free from
Americans.