FINALLY!!!!!
Someone else who ties in that war with the one in Iraq. I have mentioned the Philippine War in a few Iraq discussions and it fell on deaf ears. Here are a few quotes I pulled from a book I am reading on the war. Tomorrow I will throw more up on my thread in military quotes on the Philippine War.
http://www.military-quotes.com/forum...pic.php?t=6490
“War in its proper meaning had ceased to exist.” Gen. Otis, US Commander, declaring that war was over, DEC 1899
“The objective was not to vanquish [the US Army], a difficult matter to accomplish considering their superiority in numbers and arms, but to inflict on them constant losses, to the end of discouraging them and convincing them of our rights.” Rebel General Francisco Macabulos
“Let us for a little while longer put forth heroic deeds of arms…because McKinley falls by the waist side, the people abandon him and incline to the political party of Mr. Bryan whose fundamental teaching of the recognition of our independent party.” General Mascardo on trying to influence the American election in NOV 1900
“The fighting was relatively minor, but it caused a steady trickle of dead and wounded that soon passed the number of casualties for the entire campaign. This harassing, hit-and-run guerrilla war both puzzled and infuriated the soldiers.” Quote from the book.
Guerrilla tactics were “to constantly harass the enemy, causing him loses and avoiding such to our people,…to prepare ambushed avoiding combats, and to take rifles, ammunition, and prisoners.
the book was written in 2000, well before 9/11 and the war in Iraq