The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902

Director Military Studies Institute Brian McAllister Linn
Longleaf Services on Behalf of Univ of N. Carolina
 9780807849484
0-8078-4948-0

After defeating the Philippine Republic's conventional forces in 1899, the U.S. Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule. The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance.

read more…

into a guerrilla warfare that varied so greatly from region to region in its organization, strategy, and tactics that early American attempts at centralization and nonmilitary pacification were useless. The study offers new insights for counterinsurgency theory and for the study of America's military experience in Asia.