you forget the phillipine insurgency shortly after wwII...good article about it in this month's Military History magazine
> you forget the phillipine insurgency shortly after
> wwII...good article about it in this month's Military
> History magazine
I'll look it up. Thanks for the tip.
> you forget the phillipine insurgency shortly after
> wwII...good article about it in this month's Military
> History magazine
I'm guessing the article was based in part on this book:
http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/coldwar/huk/huk-fm.htm
I point out this passage in the conclusion, which reinforces my earlier point:
"American advisors were prohibited from taking the field with their Filipino counterparts until the latter stages of the insurgency. This was perhaps one of our greatest contributions to the Philippines during this period. Without foreign troops to assist them, the Philippine military was forced to develop on its own, under its own leaders, and fight to protect its own land and people. Once the Army became convinced that they were fighting to protect their countrymen, and not as an occupation force trying to subdue an unruly foreign population, they began to receive the people's support. As already described, the alliance of the military with the villagers, and in turn the villagers reliance on the government, spelled the end for the Huk movement."
The key, besides cutting off rebel supplies, is removing their popular support. A foreign army can't do the heavy lifting for the locals. Either the locals win (at least apparently) on their own steam, or the effort is doomed.