A letter to all Guerrilleros: Unifying the Mindanao resistance movement and unconventional warfare /
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BookDescription: 54p. ; 28cm.ISBN: 9781502333537.Subject(s): General Note(s): Theories of Cooperation and Resistance -- Historical Overview for Unconventional Warfare in the Philippines -- The Invasion -- Mindanao -- Japanese Occupation -- Building Resistance on Mindanao -- Material and Moral Support to Unconventional Warfare of Mindanao -- Leading Unconventional War on Mindanao -- Significance of Unconventional Warfare -- Analysis of Mindanao's Resistance Movement -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Doctrine -- Books -- Journals and Dissertations -- Newspapers -- OnlineSummary: United States Special Forces have used unconventional warfare with varying degree of success since their creation following the end of World War II. However, after nine years of fighting the Global War on Terror, Special Forces are better known for their capability in conducting unilateral direct action operations against terrorist cells. By relying almost exclusively on this direct action capability, Special Forces has gravitated away from its traditional and core mission of conducting unconventional warfare, a mission set that only Special Forces is specifically trained and organized to carry out. This unique Special Forces capability is now at risk of deteriorating and as a result Lieutenant General John Mulholland, commanding general of United States Army Special Forces Command (USASFC), has issued guidance to the Special Forces community to re-emphasize this capability in both training and practice. One way to emphasize the importance of unconventional warfare as an operational tool is to study the successful guerrilla operations conducted on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to find common motivational factors that led people to join or support the guerrilla operations conducted in the Philippines against occupying Japanese forces provides lessons in motivating individuals or groups to join or support guerrilla movements that can be applied to current or future unconventional warfare scenarios to support the United States. operational objectives. This paper will approach the topic of unconventional warfare using history, theory, and doctrine as a means of empirical investigation. This analytic narrative approach will combine research from specific cases with a more general model capable of producing generalizations about future cases of unconventional warfare. This techniques is useful in highlighting the complexities found in the case studies and also provides enough analytic rigor to construct reasonable explanations that are consistent with the evidence provided. The narrative will investigate the Filipino guerrilla movement during the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Island in the World War II timeframe. The case study of the guerrilla movement on Mindanao is singled out for its simplicity, as it reflects the general trends that occurred throughout all of the islands. However, this example stands out because of its effectiveness and the amount of primary source material available for research. Future studies should look at he island chain as a whole to discover advantages as well as difficulties in consolidating several competing groups into a larger unified resistance movement.
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Theories of Cooperation and Resistance -- Historical Overview for Unconventional Warfare in the Philippines -- The Invasion -- Mindanao -- Japanese Occupation -- Building Resistance on Mindanao -- Material and Moral Support to Unconventional Warfare of Mindanao -- Leading Unconventional War on Mindanao -- Significance of Unconventional Warfare -- Analysis of Mindanao's Resistance Movement -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Doctrine -- Books -- Journals and Dissertations -- Newspapers -- Online.
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