Author: Philippines DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Annual Report of Major General Arthur MacArthur, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding, Division of the Philippines
Author: Philippines DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Annual Report of Major General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding, Division of the Philippines, Military Governor in the Philippine Islands
Author: Philippines. Military Governor, 1900-1901 (Arthur MacArthur)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Annual Report of the Major-General Commanding the Army to the Secretary of War
Author: United States. ArmyAnnual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines
Author: John Scott ReedPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In fighting the Philippine-American War, the United States counted heavily on twenty-five new regiments raised in the summer of 1899: the United States Volunteers (USVs). The USVs outnumbered regular regiments in eleven of eighteen military pacification districts, particularly through the southern archipelago, where they bore the brunt of field service, combat, and disease casualties until relieved in spring 1901 by a reconstituted Regular Army. The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines offers the first full account of this historically unique 35,000-man force—and in the process describes how the USVs decisively contributed to the United States’ single most successful counterinsurgency campaign waged outside the Western Hemisphere. A close examination of the military achievements, garrison life, and institutional characteristics of the US Volunteers reveals how the force effectively combined the best elements of the American regular and militia traditions during its brief existence—abetted by an Army medical system vastly improved since debilitating losses in Cuba and the United States during 1898. Countering recent readings of the pacification of the Philippines as a near-genocidal event, John Scott Reed uses court-martial records to argue for a high disciplinary and behavioral standard among the USVs—in garrison, in the field, and, most critically, in their interactions with Filipino villagers. This standard, his evidence suggests, was supported by a late-Victorian, reflexively patriotic sense of masculinity that motivated the Volunteers, along with a profound belief in the self-evident superiority of American institutions. He also draws on recent Filipino scholarship to clarify the role of landed and commercial elites in initially supporting the Philippine Revolution and later collaborating with the US occupation. Bridging military history and post-colonial studies, Reed’s work provides a new and clearer understanding of the short-lived but highly effective US Volunteer force, and a new perspective on a critical moment in America’s military and colonial past.
The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902
Author: Brian McAllister LinnPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807849484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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 into a guerrilla warfare that varied so grea
Annual Report of Major General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding, Division of the Philippines, Military Governor in the Philippine Islands
Author: Philippines. Military Governor, 1900-1901 (Arthur MacArthur)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Appendices to Annual Report of Major General E.S. Otis, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding Department of the Pacific and 8th Army Corps, Military Governor in the Philippine Islands
Author: Philippines. Military Governor (1898-1899 : Otis)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Other Face of Battle
Author: Wayne E. LeePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190920661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020)--conflicts in which American soldiers were forced to engage in "irregular" warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. This enemy rejected the Western conventions of warfare and defined success and failure--victory and defeat--in entirely different ways. Symmetry of any kind is lost. Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity, unanticipated insurgencies, and strategic stalemate. War is always hell. These wars, however, profoundly undermined any sense of purpose or proportion. Nightmarish and existentially bewildering, they nonetheless characterize how Americans have experienced combat and what its effects have been. They are therefore worth comparing for what they hold in common as well as what they reveal about our attitude toward war itself. The Other Face of Battle reminds us that "irregular" or "asymmetrical" warfare is now not the exception but the rule. Understanding its roots seems more crucial than ever.